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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by NikolaNovak on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:05AM (#43568444)
Not all, but a lot of ThinkPad fans enjoy the track point. No laptop without a track point can be considered a viable alternative for me :-/

And thus, I have everything from a 14 year old t420s to my trusty t25 anniversary edition, and then a few workhorses with 8th gen Intels (x13 yoga, x1 carbon, t580) as personal and family laptops.

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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by dagw on Thursday April 03, 2025 @09:03AM (#43569004)
As someone who once loved the track point on my old IBM ThinkPad, I've found that for some reason every track point not made by IBM sucks. Even the modern Lenovo ones are terrible, and I have no idea why.
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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by NikolaNovak on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:17AM (#43570053)
Interesting; I do find sometimes I need to go into the app and adjust the acceleration/sensitivity/speed to my liking, but even up to my current work Yoga (12th gen Intel), I used them preferentially to trackpad when on the move (ergonomic mouse when stationary). I have struggled more with Dells and HPs, but can usually get it "close enough"
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Re:I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad by dagw on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:04AM (#43570806)
To be fair, I went IBM -> Apple -> Lenovo, so it is conceivable that the track point is actually as good as it ever was, and I just got spoiled by how good the Apple trackpads are.
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