Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by njuber on Monday August 04, 2025 @07:48AM
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Cool but I just want mouse buttons. Why did we stop doing mouse buttons? Clickpads are horrible and I'm worried that we are forgetting what we've lost.
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Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by RajT88 on Monday August 04, 2025 @08:06AM
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I hate touchpads as a whole.
When did we stop doing laptop trackballs? (I know, I know, the last laptop with a trackball is able to legally drink by now)
Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by seltzered_ on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:11AM
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The MNT reform has a trackball option: https://mntre.com/index.html
Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by egypturnash on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:11AM
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Does anyone even make a laptop that's thick enough to have room for a usefully-sized trackball in there any more?
Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by RajT88 on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:48AM
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That is defeatist thinking!
Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by egypturnash on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:20PM
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laptop with flip-out legs to keep it high enough off the ground for the trackball to work despite half the ball having to come out of the bottom of the case
bonus side effect: if someone spills a drink across the coffee shop table you don't have to try and grab it before the liquid spreads to beneath it
Re:ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 – Lenovo’s rollable laptop
by burkaman on Monday August 04, 2025 @08:28AM
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There are still a few left. For example, https://www.hp.com/us-en/workstations/zbook-fury.html and https://www.fujitsu.com/ph/products/computing/pc/ap/notebook....