Re: new laptop suggestions - not the usual stuff
Jesse Guardiani <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | WingNET |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:39:16 -0400 (EDT) >> From: Wesley Morgan <[email protected]> >> Sender: [email protected] >> >> 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. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"