[pigeons]

The trackpoint alone makes a thinkpad so comfortable to accurately and quickly get a lot done on for mouse workflows when no external mouse is attached, that nothing else comes close.

[somat]

Especially in a bouncing moving vehicle. I find touchscreens(phones) and the trackpads nearly unusable in such an environment.

It is why was a bit horrified when I was watching the first spacex manned launch and saw their main interface was a touchscreen. I guess a mitigating factor in that case is the pilots probably don't have to fiddle with it during launch and it had one feature I would love if forced to use a touchscreen in a vehicle. A dedicated bar to stabilize your fingers on.

[zingar]

I find Thinkpad trackpads really bad compared to Apple but maybe that’s just a factor of how fast the settings are by default?

[_kblcuk_]

I think they mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

[mgiampapa]

Trackpad != trackpoint. The track point is the little eraser nub pointer embedded into the keyboard. Many thinkpad enthusiasts disable the trackpad entirely.

[robotresearcher]

Trackpoint is the nipple/clit pointer nub, not the trackpad.

It's the Third Way that is not a mouse or trackpad. Oh, fifth I guess, with trackball and touchscreen.

[ofrzeta]

There's nothing like Apple in that respect due to the fact they are using glass. Please correct me if I am wrong.

[mhitza]

The trackpad is really bad compared with any other brand I've used.

[teaearlgraycold]

I disable the thinkpad trackpad in the bios. You only need the nib.

[bxparks]

What is the trackpoint equivalent of the two-finger scroll? I cannot imagine browsing the web without the two-finger scroll. Or pinch-zooming, how do you do that with a trackpoint?

[relaxing]

You have to imagine a world without gestural control, and without the bandwidth or memory for high resolution content worth zooming in on, or the processing power to smoothly scale in real time.

[ofalkaed]

Middle click + trackpoint gives you very smooth and precise xy scrolling.