Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac
by w1ntermute on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:05PM
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I'm amazed that more people never got into using TrackPoints. Mac or PC, I've never seen anyone able to use the trackpad to mouse around at anywhere near the speed that I (or other ThinkPad users) can use the TrackPoint to do so. It's funny to see how astonished people are at how quickly I can navigate, when it's really just a matter of using the right tool.
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Most people never realized that there are three different Trackpoint tips and the default was for a long time that crappy classic dome. The soft dome is somewhat better but I've been a soft rim diehard for near 15 years now.
Also I think the quality of whatever rubber they used in the mid-90s was really poor.
Gestures are a pretty big deal to me now though. Gestures and the keyboard shortcuts for me are much faster.
Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac
by w1ntermute on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:01PM
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> I've been a soft rim diehard for near 15 years now.
Yeah, I also only use the soft rim. I've worn down and had to replace them many times over the years. The one that I've got on my ThinkPad external keyboard[0] (unfortunately no longer available directly from Lenovo in the non-chicletized form) is almost flat now, probably time to order another one.
0: http://www.amazon.com/ThinkPad-USB-Keyboard-with-TrackPoint/...