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On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: |
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> yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to |
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> navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a |
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> prerequisite. |
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> does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint |
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> style mini-joystick in the middle of them ? |
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Yep: |
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http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0B47190/460/60AC6A0372B14F5BA7B12F1FF88E33C7 |
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I almost bought this one but I wanted a usb port on my keyboard itself |
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for my mouse, IIRC this one didn't have that. |
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I have used a lenovo keyboard with it, I liked it, just wish it had a |
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USB port for the mouse. |
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> the other big thing with the thinkpads used to be the keyboards. the |
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> x201 had a great almost totally full size keyboard, but they are |
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> increasingly becoming a thing of a bygone era with apple style |
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> calculator buttons that have nothing like the tactile response they used |
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> to have. as lenovo are moving away from these big-key style keyboards, |
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> does anyone have any recommendations of a laptop supplier that is |
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> starting to use them ? |
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I've been looking around too and it seems like everyone's doing the |
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chicklet keyboards. I haven't looked that hard, but almost every laptop |
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I've found seems to have the goofy keyboards. |
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Dan |
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