[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Eben King wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>>> I think Dell/HP do offer the trackpoint (or equivalents). But does
>>>> anyone else offer a useable 3 button mouse?
>>>
>>> You mean, a trackball?  Haven't seen one on a laptop for years.
>>
>> No - 3 button mouse - (the one thats on your thinkpad with the
>> trackpoint)
>
> Oh -- a trackpad, similar to this:

What? No! Trackpoint -> the rubber nipple thing in the middle of the 
keyboard. The _good_ laptop pointing device. IBM provide(d) a trackpoint
and 3 mouse buttons: I'm not sure anyone else does. Well, there was one
half height vaio that used to, some Toshibas might... but mostly only
thinkpads.