You may want to try their "On The Ball" keyboard. It has a trackball in the top right corner instead of a pointing stick and still uses buckling spring keyswitches.
The other option would be to check clickeykeyboards.com to see if there are any used or NOS model-M14 trackpoint keyboards available. On Apr 28, 2011 4:32 AM, "A. Kellerbauer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jerome, Alex, Aryeh and David for your input. Based on your > experiences, I have decided not to give the "Endurapro" a try. I'm also > not sure if I will make an attempt at the Lenovo keyboard with > Trackpoint, considering that I generally prefer desktop keyboards over > laptop keyboards. I might try it out if I find one in a store. > > The input devices currently connected to my desktop computer (not an > IBM/Thinkcentre) are > > - Microsoft Bleutooth Mobile Keyboard 6000 > - Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 > > I am actually quite satisfied with this setup. There is a slight delay > in keyboard response after a pause in activity which can sometimes lead > to unexpected behavior due to a lack of mouse--keyboard coordination > (such as Shift-Select), but one gets used to these things. Also the > battery life of the keyboard is phenomenal. The mouse uses laser > technology and is very precise, but it sometimes jumps when it > encounters light-colored dust on my black desk. > > My reason for looking into the Endurapro was to get a keyboard with a > more desktop-like feel combined with a smaller footprint thanks to the > trackpoint pointing device. > > Cheers, Alban > >> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:53:25 -0700 >> From: "Aryeh Goretsky (home)" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Ext kbd oddity >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >> >> Hello, >> >> I bought one of these many years ago. It felt like a non-ThinkPad >> pointing stick. >> No negative inertia and scrolled at a different speed than my ThinkPad 770X's >> built-in TrackPoint. The keyboard part worked as expected. >> >> Regards, >> >> Aryeh Goretsky > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
