Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo...
by taskforcegemini on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:10AM
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wait, _THAT_ was the reason they removed the 7th row?? those m...
But jokes aside, I read it saving them money in manufacturing cost was the reason. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall around David Hill when he pushed for the t25 to get a 7row, my feeling is that it is what made him leave lenovo
The TouchPads from Apple are good. Their keyboards are bad. There are two important I/O devices in a laptop, the keyboard and the display. The keyboards from ThinkPads are near perfect and don’t fall apart. Lenovo decided to remove the 7th row to acquire more space for the TouchPad. Which is a design mistake because TouchPads don’t get better by becoming just bigger.
I never use the TouchPad in my ThinkPad. I mean it is there and works nice. Libinput improved a lot. But there is a TrackPoint in the keyboard. Never leave the home row. That is where HJKL is :)