Lenovo?! This was IBM, son!
Also get off my lawn
Loved the nub, but it also ruined touch pads for me.
It makes shopping for laptops either super-easy or super-hard.
I can either get a Thinkpad, or try to find the one or two HP and Dell business laptops with one… and we all know how it ends (looks at stack of X230t, E585, and new L13)
It’s already hard for me because I personally prefer the US layout, while living in Germany, and most laptops seem to be only available with the German keyboard layouts. And Lenovo has kinda gone to shit after the Chinese takeover too. I just wish the nub would be more common, and not just for business models.
Lenovo starts up in China actually, so there is no “Chinese takeover”. By that term you could mean IBM sold their personal computer business(ThinkPad, etc.) to Lenovo.
It is going to be harder and harder in a few years. They already worsened the keyboard and made trackpoint buttons flat like dell ones so we’ll all eventually switch back to trackpads or mouses I guess. Too nieche product honestly so I get it but kinda sad :(
OTOH, it is a very effective product distinguisher. They don’t have to deal with the “Apple makes the best touchpad” meme by offering something else.
Just hold it in one position and wait for the orgasm to cross the screen.
I came so hard when you firmly pressed my clit on one side for a little while
I practice my whole life for this.
Used to play starcraft with the nib 😏
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While not necessary, I do find that mouse can have some niche application, like clicking while smoothly scrolling.
They were great back in the day when trackpads were shite and the option was a tiny trackball on your laptop.
I ruled in CoD with this.
How?!
Because you were able to fuck the other guys moms so well?
He he he
“Why is the keyboard covered in saliva?”
“I was practicing…”
“You just gotta get all up in there”
https://xkcd.com/243/ Clit mouse FTW
A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointing device typically mounted centrally in a computer keyboard.
Never figured out how to properly use these. I just find it very akward to put my tongue that close to my keyboard.
Humble brag, you used it as the designer intended.
Sir, if you keep licking the pointing sticks on our laptops we will have to ask you to leave the store
Honey, where’s your F2 button? I gotta get to the bios to start installing Linux. You’ll really enjoy it!
I used to have a friend that did R&D at IBM back in the day. Apparently there was a double nubbin version that they considered at one point.
What would the second one control?
Her prostate?
I never actually asked. We just made nipple jokes for 5 minutes.
If I were to guess, it was either a left and right side thing for left and right handed people, or a dual stick for 3 axis control.
I could actually see a second in be awesome for 3D modelling and CAD work
Lefty here, the position of the nipple between the GHB keys is pretty convenient to reach with the left hand as well. I do know they made some mice that had a nipple instead of a scroll wheel which would allow for two-axis scrolling, so perhaps you’d assign one for document scrolling and one for cursor control.
We we talking about the early physical prototypes they were making. And when you do that type of R&D, you try lots of weird stuff. You don’t know if it feels good until you try it.
Could’ve been for handedness, then when they played with the prototypes, they realized the middle was the best solution.
Or maybe it felt great, and the nipple jokes were too much.
