new laptop suggestions - not the usual stuff

[Jesse Guardiani]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:39:16 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Wesley Morgan <morganw at chemikals.org>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>> 
>> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Dan Langille wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Wesley Morgan wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Ray Seals wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 19:27, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
>> >>>> Ok folks, I know that this comes up from time to time, and I know
>> >>>> very well the FreeBSD laptop compatibility list (which rocks!), but
>> >>>> I think this case is different, and here's why.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I am looking for a new laptop that has the following features:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 1) pointing stick in keyboard   *THIS IS A MUST*
>> >>
>> >> These are sadly becoming harder to find, despite their obvious
>> >> superiority to the "touch pad". I was very put off when Toshiba
>> >> dropped their Satellite Pro line that featured this! I'll have to hang
>> >> on to my current laptop forever.
>> >
>> > IBM are committed to the stick I think.
>> 
>> Yeah but the keyboards on thinkpads suck. All springy and stiff :)
> 
> Odd. We have always used ThinkPads in my organization and the keyboard
> is the one reason IBM has won the last two times we have evaluated
> laptops on the basis of their excellent keyboards.
> 
> I did a bit or research into them and IBM actually did human testing to
> determine the what trained typists liked in terms of force required,
> length of key travel and tactile feedback and designed their keyboards
> accordingly. I have loved mine from the first time I used it, though I
> won't claim to be a trained typist.
> 
> My only issue with ThinkPads is the price and I've always found them to
> be worth it.
> 
> A happy 560, 600E and T30 user.

:) I'm fairly certain Mr. Morgan was attempting to utilize the fine art
of sarcasm. It's hard to tell from an email though. I almost wrote a
similar rebuttal before I saw the smiley at the end of his comment.

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