Re:TrackPoint (2011)
by PopeOfNope on Saturday April 25, 2015 @11:29AM
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There's also the Tex Yoda, for those who are also fans of minimal mechanical keyboards. You have to wait for a group buy on massdrop to buy one, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2tn5i0/the_tex_yo...
Re:TrackPoint (2011)
by david-given on Saturday April 25, 2015 @11:50AM
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(Link doesn't work if you're not a massdrop member.)
You can append ?mode=guest_open to Massdrop URLs to bypass the sign-up page:
Re:TrackPoint (2011)
by PopeOfNope on Saturday April 25, 2015 @04:01PM
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Thanks! I'll have to remember that.
Re:TrackPoint (2011)
by PopeOfNope on Saturday April 25, 2015 @11:55AM
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Updated. Massdrop is aggravating that way.
Re:TrackPoint (2011)
by david-given on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:24PM
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Thanks!
It's fairly expensive (~80 USD), but it's one of the better chiclet-style keyboards I've tried.
The main drawbacks are imho Fn/Ctrl position (Fn bottom left, cannot be swapped with Ctrl) and a bit poor Bluetooth range. Strangely, they've also put a huge PrtSc key between AltGr and Ctrl, which is easy to accidentally hit. (The Ubuntu camera sound has occasionally scared the bejeebies out of me.)
Apart from that, I'm really happy with it. There is a Linux utility to lock the Fn keys which works well [2]. It charges via USB (~1 week battery time with high usage), but does not function as a USB keyboard.
[1] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0B47189/460/60AC6A0...
[2] https://github.com/lentinj/tp-compact-keyboard