moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoLenovo has removed its iconic TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops | PCWorldwww.pcworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1144arrow-down131
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkLenovo has removed its iconic TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops | PCWorldwww.pcworld.commoe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squaregermtm.@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·8 hours agoremoving the nub from ThinkPad is like removing cheese from a cheeseburger. it’ll still be a laptop, but a nubless ThinkPad will always look wrong.
minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·8 hours agoNext thing you know they’ll put the Ctrl back in the right place.
minus-squareaddie@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoControl back in the right place… where you can press it with your left pinkie without taking your fingers off the home keys? Rather than where useless caps lock is just wasting space?
minus-squarestock@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agothis is actually wonderful ive been debating what to do with my caps lock thank you
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-256 minutes agoEscape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.
minus-squareMP3Martin@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-27 hours agoThankfully it can be swapped in bios
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 hours agoJust learning this now, I’m not sure if I should cry.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·7 hours agoI almost didn’t buy a ThinkPad back in the day before I leaned that you can swap it. Such a stupid design I also randomly saw today that framework has the opposite option in BIOS. For the people that migrate over
minus-squareely@mastodon.greenlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 hours ago@Dultas An Fn key is dumb anyway since that is the goal of every key anyway. @germtm_
removing the nub from ThinkPad is like removing cheese from a cheeseburger.
it’ll still be a laptop, but a nubless ThinkPad will always look wrong.
Next thing you know they’ll put the Ctrl back in the right place.
Control back in the right place… where you can press it with your left pinkie without taking your fingers off the home keys? Rather than where useless caps lock is just wasting space?
this is actually wonderful ive been debating what to do with my caps lock thank you
Escape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.
Thankfully it can be swapped in bios
Just learning this now, I’m not sure if I should cry.
I almost didn’t buy a ThinkPad back in the day before I leaned that you can swap it. Such a stupid design
I also randomly saw today that framework has the opposite option in BIOS. For the people that migrate over
@Dultas
An Fn key is dumb anyway since that is the goal of every key anyway.
@germtm_