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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 07:10 AM 4/3/98 -0800, you wrote: >My concerns? That I might hate the touchpad. I've grown to >really like the Trackpoint for my notebook use. Anyone have >similar Trackpoint vs. Touchpad thoughts? Well, I read about this issue a year or two ago. They seemed to think think that people who used touchpads would never choose a pointing stick, while pointing stick users didn't really care. My response to that was that no one ever asked ME! The pointing stick approach is the only one I've found that allows me to (effectively) leave my hands (both of them) at the home row. Most of what I do is text based, whether it is Email or word processing or even most of my presentation work. The "mouse" use is ancillary. So, for typing efficiency, I don't want to have to move my hand, mouse around, then have to move my hand back and make sure it's in the right place before I can continue with the main event. A good friend of mine bought a Toshiba with a pointing stick and hated it. He said that his finger kept slipping off the nub. I gave him one of my "cat's tongue" TrackPoint caps and he's been fine ever since. On his desktop machine, he has a touchpad built into his keyboard. Plus, he has one of those new-ish Cross pen pads. Anyway, I am pleased to see that there is a choice in notebook computer with pointing stick. I've seen not only IBM and Toshiba, but a couple of other fairly reasonable brands with them. I still expect to buy an IBM again next time (which I don't expect to be that many more months), but I like seeing competition in the market. And, who knows, maybe Toshiba or someone will come out with a real "killer" notebook for a LOT less money than the comparable IBM that will be too good a deal to pass up. (Without the pointing stick, it would be very easy to pass up.) Good luck! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3 Comment: My keys, 0x571B55BD & 0x628ECED2, available from key servers iQEVAwUBNSUFk+ukCaFXG1W9AQH+HQf/dZ9b7MfE+UOiPNeGYmbNzflyf9pReYy/ ffSMGpV3/XnM46SInIV2WBVmOntppdVlEPsbknJFxA/LXfkZ+6E6RPxgbcTwDnqN NjOcoM7ZDwEE7ubs+JZM27envVejACwdWUm0K4PD4GKLllQ39lId/+JQ0b7+mqon 7L4Wh0z9+dNLN93nWB9oC5+TfvgWyYSDxAfnhlacvEtJBYQ+lz13pd2xL1l71Anm o55di+2LtvQPgr5eNfqcQYWuu9LhLmrfBXSFxPGbZHjFyd6NQ8EISyBqFUbfnx1h 7rxEeTIrKcNRltwb5RwgEHzSs9RE4T/P7hILWceaWdy/rAZmMlfeAA== =A2tU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ron.