People love their tech, and feel like something’s missing when it’s not there. This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It goes by many names: the TrackPoint, the nub, the mouse nipple, the pointing stick, the weird red dot on your ...

Lenovo’s iconic crimson red TrackPoint nub, which has been going strong for three decades, is a staple of ThinkPad laptops. However, this year at CES, Lenovo announced that it’s ditching the nub on ...

The X9 14 and X9 15 Aura Editions are Copilot Plus PCs with slim designs — and no nubs in sight. The X9 14 and X9 15 Aura Editions are Copilot Plus PCs with slim designs — and no nubs in sight. is a ...

When I sit down to write an article about a laptop I recently reviewed, my most immediate thoughts are usually focused on a feature I liked or disliked, or what type of person it would benefit the ...

Since IBM launched the ThinkPad in 1992, the iconic laptop has carried a unique identity with it in the form of a small red "button" located between the G, H, and B keys on the keyboard. But this ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Lenovo's new ThinkPad X9 14/15 laptops have been leaked, with shots of the new laptop teasing that the company has dropped its popular "pointing stick" or ...

Love it or hate it, TrackPoint can be a powerful tool. Love it or hate it, the idea of moving the mouse without removing your hands from the keys has an appeal. [Alon Swartz] incorporated one into his ...

PCWorld reviews the Ploopy Bean, a $70 CAD external pointing-stick mouse that mimics IBM’s TrackPoint design with four configurable Omron buttons. The device fundamentally misses the original ...

The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II ($85.99) takes the ThinkPad experience back to its Japanese minimalist roots. Inspired by the simple design of Bento lunch boxes, distinctive black ThinkPad ...