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I'm afraid touchpads are a deal-killer for me. Are there any manufacturers other than Lenovo that do the nub-mouse or something similar?

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There are some critical patents that Thinkpads use in their trackpoints that ought to be expiring soon:

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...

Fuck patents.

Edit: But, thank you for the information.

I prefer to think that this means we'll be getting good pointers on not-Thinkpads in 2016 or 2017.

Some Dell business laptops and HP's older EliteBooks have touch pointers - though I seem to remember they're concave instead of convex (perhaps due to patents?).

I have an E6510 with a blue concave nub. The older D620 (pentium M) had a blue convex nub though.

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