A year and a half ago I gave my daughter the nice A-31 (I think) I
bought from Bruce M.., and took possession of her Latitude (which,
admittedly, I had bought used). I was
pleased to see the "trackpoint," but not pleased to see that the cursor
often loses its mind, and kamikazes down to the START button and stays
there. Dragging it up via
trackpoint, or by literally clawing at the touch pad, is like trying to
pull someone out of quicksand (not that I've ever actually, etc.). This
discussion is making me think that's a result of the Dell software.
IBM/Lenovo: can you ever forgive me for straying?
Jon Etkins wrote:
> Yep, my wife just started at Dell, and they gave her a Latitude as her work machine. The Track Stick - "Trackpoint" is an IBM trademark - is horrible, to the extent that I find myself actually preferring the touchpad - something that I *never* do on a Thinkpad.
>
> The difference is a patented IBM invention called "Negative Inertia", which other laptop makers appear unwilling to license (or perhaps IBM refuses to do so, preferring to retain a competitive advantage). See http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/user/tp/ninertia.html for an overview, or google "trackpoint negative inertia" for more than you probably wanted to know.
>
>
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> On Feb 26, 2007, at 13:00, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
>>
>>> I worked on a Dell Latitude recently, which has a trackpoint of sorts,
>>> but
>>> it was hyperactive (XP) and hard to manage. The owner allowed as how he
>>> had never used it.
>>>
>> My wife has a Lattitude and I have had similar experience with the
>> trackpoint.
>> There's a rumor that it's because D**l doesn't want to license the
>> firmware from IBM their trackpoint doesn't work as well.
>>
>> Andrew in Ann Arbor
>> technology is the answer, what was the question?
>>
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