ITT post tech shit you wish they still made

ITT post tech shit you wish they still made.

>dotted touchpads
Plus physical keys are disappearing which is really gross.

>physical keys are disappearing

No, definitely not. Maybe on glorified phones for searching youtube and making tweets but for actual productivity like software engineering keyboards are going nowhere soon. It is simply much faster, even for my friend who doesn't even use a real keyboard anymore outside of his work as a programmer in san francisco.

I meant laptop touchpad keys

They still make one or both of these on business laptops.

Which ones? I'm looking to upgrade from my old HP.

Do they still make the swivel screens? Shit was cash

>touchpad not centered with spacebar

At least it has a switch to turn it off. I miss that from my old laptop.

It has a switch for everything.
Wireless has its own switch instead of an fn key, there's a key to open up control panel on the side of the screen, separate volume keys so you can have other shit in the fn keys.

New laptops just feel cut down.

>dotted touchpads

for what fucking reason

Feels good to use.

The flat matte ones in modern laptops feel too slow and grippy, even with sensitivity turned up.
Even on a macbook which I've heard has a good touchpad...

Agree about the buttons but dotted touchpads were always cancer.

absolutely disgusting

15" laptops without an useless numpad

you could try a sticker like on t420

Stupid question, but can I use that sticker on any touchpad?

>he uses a dotted or rough touchpad
Smooth touchpads like pic related are the best, especially since you can feel the edges of it

And can I cut it to fit?

I guess that depends on the touchpad, but as long as they are capacitive it should work on any, yeah

good solid thinkpads with fully backward engineered chipsets.

My X200 is fantastic, but slow compared to modern machines.

It's probably down to the fact you've used your laptop for so long you've worn down the matte texture

this nigga knows what's up

HP used to make top tier trackpads

pic related, those buttons man, so fucking comfy

Look again, the touchpad is part of the chassis on my HP. It can't wear down like a thinkpad.

It never had one, the touchpad is part of the chassis and feels just as smooth as any other surface on the laptop.
See

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PHONES WITH ACTUAL SLIDE KEYBOARDS

NOT FUCKING BLUETOOTH ADDON CASES

NOT FUCKING BLUEBERRY

NOT FUCKING A 27 INCH SCREEN

AN ACTUAL FUCKING KEYBOARD

Seems like you've got used to dealing with shit touchpads

dear god...

I got used to cheap shit $2 earphones, then discovered Superior vmoda remotes.

Would this not be the same if what you say is true? With touchpads though

>playing with balls

gross

bottom row, second mouse

FUCKING GOD-LIKE

Your fingers polish those and they get grippy. The entire point of the ThinkPad using a sticker is you can just replace it every few years for a few bucks.

Love my Logitech Marble use it every day all day.

Top right Kensington is GARBAGE though. Also gives off a high pitch noise which is annoying as shit, hate mouses/trackballs that do that.

perfect pointer tracking device for those long sessions of Civilization

Love my Logitech Marble use it every day all day.

Top right Kensington is GARBAGE though. Also gives off a high pitch noise which is annoying as shit, hate mouses/trackballs that do that.

I guess you just found your million dollar idea.

Computers self contained within the keyboard

That shits possible again, if only OEMs were interested.

Could get away with a micro USB powered little atom z8300

>me I recently found a mom and pop computer store selling the optical trackman for $70.
>they had 3
>bought 2 of them
I love the mouse but Diablo 3 destroys that mouses longevity. I play it with a Japanese trackball mouse now.

>take laptop
>remove display assembly
>???

i've done this before, actually, with a laptop with a broken screen. in order to keep the broken screen from obscuring an external screen, i removed it entirely

Nixie tube displays most beautiful thing I've ever seen I pick this up at the local swap shop for $2 and the chips inside of dated 1969 and it went through an update 1971 this meter still works perfectly

...

X240 masterrace touchpad reporting in.

Absolutely cancerous.

Pretty sure I've seen them on chink sites before

I recognize that touch pad, it's from an HP convertible laptop/tablet hybrid

I had one in highschool

omg they got rid of the trackpoint buttons

motherfuckers

The X250 and X1 Carbon touchpads have them back. See pic related

literally posting on a dotted touchpad right now

Torpedo tit bras

yea this is annoying as shit
also those touchpads where the whole thing clicks down are annoying as shit too

Which one of these would you recommend most? I have 2nd from the left bottom and pic related.

I'd replace that with the x250 trackpad as soon as I could.

I actually tried and like both.

way better than those stupid tiny wireless mice people using with laptops

they should just remove the touchpad altogether, since the trackpoint is just way better
I've had my X220 for years and the touchpad sticker is still brand new

noice

>>touchpad not centered with spacebar

Which is likely due to another annoying trend, manufacturers being so allergic to empty space that they force a numpad on a laptop where it shouldn't fit

I miss my dotted touchpad

I've done this too, it's a fun and easy mod.
you should try it with an old netbook! Or pick up something "for parts" from ebay with only a bad screen.

Still missing them on the bottom.

Dotted touchpads are the best

Isn't it a clickpad? They're still there, they're just part of the trackpad now.

And that's fucking bullshit.

Just as terrible as the trackpoint buttons being part of it.

>superior design is bullshit
Sure thing bud

Just think of how much space could be saved by removing the trackpad.

>part of the trackpad
Ew.

In what way is it superior?

>superior

it's literally a solution looking for a problem.

One that causes more problems, in fact.

What if one wants to right click or drag something? Then it freaks the fuck out half the time not doing what you wanted it to do

Whereas with a separate button you just press it and it works

It's not superior, for the same reasons trackpoint buttons as part of the touchpad are not superior to separate trackpoint buttons.

Kys

I hate hp and compaq laptops so much

It's better that way.

>more trackpad
>still have buttons
>but the whole trackpad is the buttons
>or wherever you want on the button
There's literally no downside

Literally entirely false. I can configure it so that anywhere on the trackpad I can make a left, middle, or right click, based on the number of fingers I use. Or I can configure it so that bottom left click is left, bottom middle is middle, and bottom right is right. Vastly superior to having two buttons at the bottom.

no u

Clickpads are hands down the greatest trackpad design man has ever conceived.

It was sort of an unseen side effect. They added the keypad, but didn't bother to reposition the touchpad initially. Most laptops now shift it to center with the spacebar now.
Thing I find annoying is if you don't want numeric keypad, those few laptops that don't have one often cost *more*.

I actually prefer it when it's offset from the touchpad, makes it easier for ne to type.

>better that way
No.

>I can configure it so that anywhere on the trackpad I can make a left, middle, or right click, based on the number of fingers I use. Or I can configure it so that bottom left click is left, bottom middle is middle, and bottom right is right. Vastly superior to having two buttons at the bottom.

And then you miss them because you can't feel where each button ends and starts.

Also, most clickable trackpads don't even let you do that.

Lenovo's on X220 I recall, the entire bottom edge is left click, then the right half slightly above it is right click, and there's nothing you can do to change it.

It's not feel-able, therefore it's objectively worse.

>more trackpad
Not really, since you have to dedicate parts of it to the buttons! So it's a meaningless gain!

Just look for 14 inch laptops. Those never have keypads.

It is better though.

>And then you miss them because you can't feel where each button ends and starts.
Wouldn't know, I've only ever used 1/2/3 finger click. I was just pointing out that the option's there.
>Also, most clickable trackpads don't even let you do that.
Never used one that hasn't, although I've only used two laptop clickpads and a Magic Trackpad.

>It's not feel-able, therefore it's objectively worse.
You don't need to be able to feel the button when it's literally everywhere.
>Not really, since you have to dedicate parts of it to the buttons!
Actually even when you dedicate areas as buttons you can still use them to control the cursor.

Now try using the touchpad and buttons at the same time ;-)

I do, all the time.

So do I. Having a dotted touchpad, and having physical buttons, is so much nicer.

>You don't need to be able to feel the button when it's literally everywhere.
It's not literally anywhere if you have a right click area set up.

Dotted touchpads are disgusting. Glass clickpad is the masterrace.

Sure it is if you use the 1/2/3 finger click setup. Hell you can still 2 finger right click when you have a right click area set up.

power buttons with a lot of travel.

I like how old machines made turning on and off your machine dramatic/more dramatic.

Or you can just have a fucking button for it.

No thanks

>tfw old thinkpads used to beep when they turned on and off

It's like it said "good night user!" or "hello user!" in its computerspeak

>using the trackpad on a thinkpad
absolutely an hero

Your opinion is trash

Nah, I'm just not a masochist like you are.

>spill drink
rip

>says the user who prefers inferior tech

But I prefer superior technology, silly.

But you've clearly stated a preference for inferior technology earlier ITT

I miss the physical buttons, but I do not miss the dotted touchpads.

textured rouchpads are the best man
god damnit it feels so good

Not once have I done so.

Ikr.
Especially when it's built into the chassis like the one in the op

Whey you stated your preference of inferior slate touchpads with no buttons(that was you, wasn't it?) instead of superior textured ones with physical separate buttons

But there is literally no trackpad design better than a glass clickpad.