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Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac by busterarm on Friday December 27, 2013 @10:09PM (#6973721)
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.

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Re:Guide to Leaving your Mac by w1ntermute on Friday December 27, 2013 @11:01PM (#6973857)
> 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/...

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