From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 21:50:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F6841065672 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:50:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37A98FC13 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:50:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8ALnTEm022830; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:49:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:50:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:50:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090910215020.GA27299@thought.org> References: <20090909210833.GA23467@thought.org> <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090910102925.1ea9ffd3.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:50:30 -0000 On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10" screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick > > to act as the mouse. > > This "stick" is called a TrackPoint, as far as I remember. It has been > common in portable computers built by IB and Toshiba. > i think you're right. ibm came up with some advertising name that fit. better than "clit" , :-), lol, ..... LOL. yes, i do laugh at my own jokes now and then. > > > > Pref'ly, no touch-pad. > > Sadly, you will find mostly that (crap) in "modern" devices... > it's on my wife's new dell laptop. last time i tried to use it i couldn't get the hang of it. at any rate, it is in the way of where my hand would be. ---this, fwiw, is why i bought the last thinkpad, 3.0GHZ with just the trackpoint and the three horizontal bars. those work. well, for me. ... > > > > The ASUS and just about every other > > notebook-size device has this kind of scratch-n-sniff pad; [...] > > Nice name. Other names: Fingerprint sensor and coffee cup warmer. :-) > :-) damn small coffee cup, eh? > > > > Any clues? > > Look for IBM / Lenovo, maybe they still employ this fantastic and > easy to use pointing device. Allthough it would completely make sense > to use a Trackpoint for netbook class computers (litte real estate > consumption, minimal moving from "hand in typing position" to "hand > in pointing position"), it seems that the worst solution always > prevails. I haven't seen Trackpoints on "modern" stuff yet, and I'm > quite about thinking that it doesn't exist anymore. > i thought i saw the red bottom [top] of the trackpoint in the newer thinkpads. the chinese probably went with the deafault [t'pad]. but the pointer dev would take up the least realestate. and especially on the notebook-sized laptops that would seem significant. oh::: how about the $100 laptops for kids? what was it? one-laptop-per-child? did ``the market'' force them to go belly-up? i'll google around and see if they got skrewd. gary > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php