[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Friday 03 December 2004 03:32 pm, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:

> And so what's the point? Unless you suggest that IBM should have
> integrated a mouse complete with mousepad into the notebook. ;-)
>
> To my experience, a TrackPoint is a thing you have to get used to.
> It is not a good thing for a graphics artist or anyone else who depends
> on precision pointing or rather movements.

Actually my favorite pointing device ever to show up in a laptop was the=20
trackball in the really old-school PowerBook 1xx series and the PowerBook D=
uo=20
series. Sweet! I now use Logitech Marble Mice on all my desktops. I love th=
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for FPS games...smooth as silk, natural to use. It would rock if someone=20
brought back a Duo-sized trackball in a laptop design.=20

/me thinks of deviltry involving an LCD panel, an old non-functional Duo, a=
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a VIA EPIA Mini-ITX box...

Michelle

PS: I have teensy little girl hands so the Trackpoint suits me OK. I wouldn=
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play UT with one, but for normal point-and-click it's fine.
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Michelle Klein-Hass
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