I print roughly two or three things per year, and they’re always bigger than A5, so that would be a completely useless feature for me.

No.

But I would immediately buy a new laptop with a track ball and mouse buttons like this one

I’ve only seen one irl, and they are incredibly intuitive to use, and you don’t accidentally move the mouse while typing

nope.

The first thing I do with any new laptop is figure out show to disable the trackpad. I’ve never liked them and they’ve been getting worse as more manufacturers make apple-like ones (physical buttons are nicer). So I’m disinclined to own something that, for me, just introduces a ton of new ways for my spacebar to break.

Depending on the specs, that sounds like it could be fun. Like a quirky street performance thing for artists to draw, print & sell art all at once?

Honestly? No.

Sounds like too much integration, so when something goes wrong with one part you now have a wonderful, probably expensive, machine with 70% functionality that you can’t justify replacing outright.

Now you end up with a dongle to replace that 30% function you lost that ends up working better than the original part and you realize you should have just done that from the start.

I’m probably just bitter, but “Fool me once…”

No, but can you make one with spacebar heating?

why do I want to carry a printer with me? no. this sounds more like a point-of-sale device.

I can’t remember the last time I had to print something out on dead trees. Pass.

I already carry a mouse with me when I travel because I hate laptop touchpads. So double pass on an even smaller area of integrated touchpad/spacebar.

I wouldn’t personally buy one, but provided the spacebar was big enough, it probably wouldn’t be terrible to use. Not so long ago, mouse touchpads weren’t that big, so it could potentially work.

But for someone who cared about such a compact thing, I have to wonder if they would prefer a mouse nipple over a spacebar-mouse.

Not in a million years.

There is no such thing as a perfectly accurate touch pad “click”. Most people (myself included) tend to see their finger slip (even just a millimeter) to the right or the left when pressing down to click on a touchpad. It leads to go knows how many times that my cursor in the middle of typing has suddenly jumped to a completely different line. In fact, it’s why they implemented the option to turn off the touchpad when typing.

So now let’s introduce ANOTHER use to that part of the keyboard. Not only do we have to deal with a wandering cursor, but we have to deal with random spaces popping into existence every time we try to scroll.

Screw that.

I’m torn between “uh, what” and “no.”

No, it’s been years since I printed anything, and I’m not willing to start now.

• I’m coming up on three years with my current employer and never felt the need to even find a printer
• I was planning to get a laser printer now that I no longer need color for school projects…. But what would I want to print?

Absolutely not. I loathe gestures my touchpad and disable everything I can.

Ignoring the printer aspect… I do everything I can to avoid laptop trackpads anyway. I’ve never used one that didn’t make me want to smack the designers of.