From: Valentino Kyriakides (vkyr_at_lavielle.com)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 11:13:23 EDT
AFAIK, some compaq notebooks also have blue trackpoint covers. If I remember
correctly it were the models from the new E700 series. HP has also mostly
dual pointing device machines.
There are the following notebooks with trackpoints:
IBM - red trackpoint covers
Toshiba - green trackpoint covers
HP - red trackpoint covers
Compaq - blue trackpoint covers (formerly it was a different color)
Micron - blue trackpoint covers
Which other trackpoint covers are OK for ThinkPads? And do they differ in
material and usability?
BTW, here in germany there are only "two red trackpoint covers" in a package
ordered from IBM, didn't somebody told that there are three inside in the
USA?
Greetings Valentino
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald W. Heiby [mailto:heiby_at_falkor.chi.il.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 11:54 PM
> To: ThinkPad-Users
> Subject: Re[2]: blue trackpoint covers
>
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Tuesday, October 05, 1999, 2:24:33 PM, Vincent wrote:
> VP> Atleast you can use one when you hate the other.
> VP> It's like the equal choice machine.
>
> Well, sort of. I used a Compaq with a touch pad for a while. The two
> things about it that really annoyed me were:
>
> 1) Had to move my hands off the "home row" to do a "mouse" function.
>
> 2) The fleshy part of my thumb tended to rest on the touch pad,
> causing the mouse cursor to skitter off somewhere undesired.
>
> A dual pointing device machine that had both pointing stick and touch
> pad would certainly solve #1. However, unless the touch pad can
> actually be *disabled*, #2 would seem to remain.
>
> Does Micron allow the touch pad to be disabled, leaving the pointing
> stick active?
> ...
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:55:27 EST