On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: > yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to > navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a > prerequisite. > does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint > style mini-joystick in the middle of them ?
Yep: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0B47190/460/60AC6A0372B14F5BA7B12F1FF88E33C7 I almost bought this one but I wanted a usb port on my keyboard itself for my mouse, IIRC this one didn't have that. I have used a lenovo keyboard with it, I liked it, just wish it had a USB port for the mouse. > the other big thing with the thinkpads used to be the keyboards. the > x201 had a great almost totally full size keyboard, but they are > increasingly becoming a thing of a bygone era with apple style > calculator buttons that have nothing like the tactile response they used > to have. as lenovo are moving away from these big-key style keyboards, > does anyone have any recommendations of a laptop supplier that is > starting to use them ? > I've been looking around too and it seems like everyone's doing the chicklet keyboards. I haven't looked that hard, but almost every laptop I've found seems to have the goofy keyboards. Dan
