- USB Wired
- Lenovo
- Black
Please Keep Making These Forever
12/02/2011
This review is from: Lenovo ThinkPad Black USB Wired Ultimate Compact Keyboard with TrackPoint - US English
Pros:
You don't have to move hands away from keyboard to move mouse. They seem to work on all computers, Windows, Mac, Linux. These newer models don't have that annoying touchpad anymore (which I just covered with lots of packing tape). Once you get used to a Trackpoint I can't imagine wanting anything else. I think most people just don't want to put in the week to get used to it.
Cons:
The one thing that's not perfect about this keyboard is that the DPI is kind of low, so the pointer moves slowly. After 8 years of practice, I like my pointer to move much faster. Other mice and trackballs move faster out of the box. On Windows I can just crank it up in control panel and it's fine. On MAC I bought a little app to speed it up. It works, but the DPI gets cranked up a lot, so the cursor jumps a few pixels at a time. On Ubuntu there's a setting to speed it up and it's fine. I wish Lenovo would increase the output DPI so that it's the same as mice and touchpads, etc.
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If you don't like a zippy cursor, then it doesn't matter, I guess.
Overall Review:
I've been a consultant doing programming for a zillion years. I take one of these keyboards to every contract. They always look at me a little funny, but I explain that I get carpal tunnel from a mouse, and this Lenovo TrackPoint keyboard allows the irritation to go away.
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I was at a bank that didn't allow ANYTHING brought in from home, and after two months my carpal tunnel pain resurfaced and had climbed from 0 to 4 (of 10), so they let me bring in this keyboard. Over 3 weeks my CT pain went back to zero.
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I liked the first Lenovo keyboard I bought back in 2003(?) so much I bought another, then another, then another. Now all 5 of my computers use this keyboard, event the laptops. It's just so much easier to have the exact same key placements and a Trackpoint everywhere I go.
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I love this Keyboard. Thank you Lenovo!
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- Quintin S.
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