On: Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)

[Anarch157a]

I used to love it, back when Thinkpads still had real buttons to go with it. Then they replaced them with trackpad clicking, which makes using it a pain, because it'd usually register movements besides the click, completely defeating the best feature of the TrackPoint, it's pixel-perfect precision. It was never as quick to use as a mouse, of course, but I could always position the cursor exactly where I wanted before clicking.

[initself → Anarch157a]

There's no such thing as a Thinkpad without a Trackpoint and proper buttons.

[sergiosgc → initself]

The second or third gen X1Carbon used a clickpad. And an LCD bar for the F1-F12 keys. The two design decisions were reversed in the next iteration of the laptop.

[mst → sergiosgc]

And the designer was fired and got a new job at Apple.

[keithpeter → initself]

Alas, the L series thinkpads have the trackpoint but rely on the trackpad for clicking. Nice fast machines that have good battery life (e.g L440) but...

[Anarch157a → initself]

There were a couple of those in my last job. But apparently they reverted to having proper buttons.

[snazz → initself]

The T440? They had to revert it for the next generation (T450).

[Anarch157a → snazz]

Great. Now they can go back to my buying list.