Big fan of the trackpoint and not the trackpad, love the vertical and sideways scrolling feature. I think you can get separate keboards with the nipple/trackpoint/eraserhead on them, not sure about a full sized one but I just love the small Thinkpad keyboards. For travelling around I'm pining for a Thinkpad keyboard with nipple and Bluetooth - no need for wires or a mouse.
I think the IBM Thinkpad keyboards are the best to use on any laptop I've tried. The best test is when you are a bit drunk, I find with the IBM I have a better hit rate! Also the IBM Trackpoints (nipples) are the best over having a mouse to use. Trackpads I find are horrible to use.
I dont see it as off topic, my comments were related to the article sayin Microsoft wanting people to stop hating them so much - I am one of those haters. MS's whole bubble of ship crap, make money, try and squeeze more money for crap, dont let any competitors get a look in - is starting to burst I reckon. Too many as good or better alternatives to MS products are appearing and gaining interest (Gmail, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Linux, OSX). A couple of years ago MS knew that the loud haters mattered very little since "what the hell can they do, they're still gonna use our shit" - now Microsoft NEED to tune into those hate vibes and do something about it. -zahg
Sorry i didn't mean the Mac mini would enable me to switch to Linux, I meant it would enable me to switch to a Mac OSX/Unix platform. I have only dabbled in Linux a few times over the years and admit that I'm not knowledgable enough nor have the time to learn about what is required to get an equivalent to my WinXP system up and running, would love to be able to - but for me its just too high a learning curve for a clunky unelegant desktop (sorry not tried latest improved flavours). Mac hardware and OSX has me drooling in terms of quality, artistic detail, intuitiveness, eye candy (quite a big deal to me) and its whole elegantly executed philosphy of switch on - work/play/create - switch off.
I admit I 'hate' Microsoft even though their products are useful and enjoyable enough to use now. But their aggressive business style and the (successful) way they lock consumers/industries into using only their products as well as forced upgrades, unfriendly software and malware intrusions has now left such a bad taste in my mouth that I've been wanting to turn my back on *anything* Microsoft related for a couple of years now. Mac mini arriving will allow me to eagerly switch from MS's world to that of Apple Macs and Unix/Linux OSs and tools. Over the next couple of years I plan to seriously limit my MS use to that of 'as and when needed', and will be advocating limiting the use of MS products to anyone who will listen (friends/family/businesses/schools)! -zahg
I totally agree, the ThinkPad (apart from the Apple range of laptops) are the truest incarnations of a laptop computer out there, a truly mobile designed portable machine. Amazing and practical build with beautiful no-nonsense looks. Titanium casing! THE BEST KEYBOARDs! Trackpoint is just wonderful to use. Being a gamer I've been kinda pissed off they haven't created an acceptable gamers laptop altho they have finally come out with the T42 that has an ATI 9600 gfx card. I currently have the use of an IBM T23 and this 2 year old baby is still a dream to use when I'm not using my bedroom desktop setup. Have also been using the recent T41 and again what a beautiful piece of engineering! I at least hope somebody realises how much of a market there is for a super-mobile, sensible, practical and tuff laptop! -zahg
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Big fan of the trackpoint and not the trackpad, love the vertical and sideways scrolling feature.
I think you can get separate keboards with the nipple/trackpoint/eraserhead on them, not sure about a full sized one but I just love the small Thinkpad keyboards. For travelling around I'm pining for a Thinkpad keyboard with nipple and Bluetooth - no need for wires or a mouse.
I think the IBM Thinkpad keyboards are the best to use on any laptop I've tried. The best test is when you are a bit drunk, I find with the IBM I have a better hit rate!
Also the IBM Trackpoints (nipples) are the best over having a mouse to use. Trackpads I find are horrible to use.
I dont see it as off topic, my comments were related to the article sayin Microsoft wanting people to stop hating them so much - I am one of those haters.
MS's whole bubble of ship crap, make money, try and squeeze more money for crap, dont let any competitors get a look in - is starting to burst I reckon. Too many as good or better alternatives to MS products are appearing and gaining interest (Gmail, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Linux, OSX).
A couple of years ago MS knew that the loud haters mattered very little since "what the hell can they do, they're still gonna use our shit" - now Microsoft NEED to tune into those hate vibes and do something about it.
-zahg
Sorry i didn't mean the Mac mini would enable me to switch to Linux, I meant it would enable me to switch to a Mac OSX/Unix platform.
I have only dabbled in Linux a few times over the years and admit that I'm not knowledgable enough nor have the time to learn about what is required to get an equivalent to my WinXP system up and running, would love to be able to - but for me its just too high a learning curve for a clunky unelegant desktop (sorry not tried latest improved flavours).
Mac hardware and OSX has me drooling in terms of quality, artistic detail, intuitiveness, eye candy (quite a big deal to me) and its whole elegantly executed philosphy of switch on - work/play/create - switch off.
I admit I 'hate' Microsoft even though their products are useful and enjoyable enough to use now. But their aggressive business style and the (successful) way they lock consumers/industries into using only their products as well as forced upgrades, unfriendly software and malware intrusions has now left such a bad taste in my mouth that I've been wanting to turn my back on *anything* Microsoft related for a couple of years now.
Mac mini arriving will allow me to eagerly switch from MS's world to that of Apple Macs and Unix/Linux OSs and tools. Over the next couple of years I plan to seriously limit my MS use to that of 'as and when needed', and will be advocating limiting the use of MS products to anyone who will listen (friends/family/businesses/schools)!
-zahg
I totally agree, the ThinkPad (apart from the Apple range of laptops) are the truest incarnations of a laptop computer out there, a truly mobile designed portable machine. Amazing and practical build with beautiful no-nonsense looks. Titanium casing! THE BEST KEYBOARDs! Trackpoint is just wonderful to use.
Being a gamer I've been kinda pissed off they haven't created an acceptable gamers laptop altho they have finally come out with the T42 that has an ATI 9600 gfx card.
I currently have the use of an IBM T23 and this 2 year old baby is still a dream to use when I'm not using my bedroom desktop setup. Have also been using the recent T41 and again what a beautiful piece of engineering!
I at least hope somebody realises how much of a market there is for a super-mobile, sensible, practical and tuff laptop!
-zahg