Very interesting. With a good TrackPoint implementation (including getting the buttons right), and a decent touchpad for people who prefer that, I could see standardizing on it for fleet laptops.

They have even better open source thinking than Lenovo (which inherited some good thinking from IBM), and the US provenance is significant to some companies.

(Though I'd probably standardize on Debian Stable rather than PopOS.)

This is very exciting. After Dell and HP dropped out over the past year, I've been waiting for a company other than Lenovo to build a well-designed laptop with a pointing stick. This company being System76 makes the news even better, since I know the hardware will receive first-class support on Linux. I'm glad that System76 is taking the community laptop suggestions seriously (implementing a ThinkPad-style TrackPoint is the top suggestion by number of thumbs up: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25).

That's because this is a ThinkPad keyboard. I'll highly doubt that they will get a license to use those by default. They either have to come up with their own design or make it compatible with a ThinkPad keyboard, which you then have to buy and install yourself.

It is a think pad keyboard, it even has the windows key logo on it.