Most manufatures that used TrackPoint's in the past positioned them wrong... Too low or high within the keyboard or the buttons were in uncomfortable positions.

I would say mainly IBM and Lenovo have the positioning correct as well as on some models TrackPoint buttons.

So if you had tried most of dell's attempts and tought it was useless, that's because it was even though its a simular implimentation :)

I would certainly buy a Thinkpad T14 with the classic keyboard layout << T420 >> in a heart beat... << even if it had to be thinker >> standard price not x2 mess that was the Thinkpad 25.

(( I currently have 6 working thinkpads ))