[Thinkpad] Thinkpad Digest, Vol 47, Issue 2

[Julian Thomas]

In <BEC4C478864A2749B0733455A256A58E04C0DD40 at NIHCESMLBX9.nih.gov>, on
08/01/07 
   at 01:23 PM, "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E]" <rosenr at mail.nih.gov>
typed: >There are pointing sticks and Trackpoints(r).   IBM has some
patented >technology in their Trackpoints that most other vendors who
offer >pointing sticks don't license.  The general consensus is that those
>patented technologies are what makes the IBM/Lenovo Trackpoints work so
>well and other vendors' products not work so well.

I can vouch for that. One of the high end Dell laptops (Latitude -
business model, not el cheapo) that I had the misfortune to have to work
on briefly a month ago had a green stick in the middle of the keyboard
that was almost totally unusable.

 
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