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The whole point? I've been buying a bunch of used ones because they're solid machines, and the battery is reasonably easy to replace. I've never liked the track point, it's not the whole point or even any point for myself.


To be fair, the wheep holes are pretty nice as well. I bought my first Thinkpad after I accidentally dumped a whole glass of water on my Toshiba laptop and it stopped working, so this was the initial feature that attracted me decades ago.

Another plus at the time was the strong Linux support, but Dell has better Linux support.

Also to be fair, I use a MacBook Pro as my laptop these days, and mostly use a desktop computer 95% of the time, because desktop computers I haven’t been brainwashed to think that laptops are better than desktops and prefer their superiority.


Yeah. Other than the trackpoint, there are a number of vendors that used to sell pretty solid machines with easy to replace batteries. The trackpoint was the only thing you had a tough time getting anywhere else.


Well it is the whole point for OP

Not sure reactions to every claim others make as some attempt to normalized opinion is useful. Kind of vain of you to think they were obliging you to feel so much given a banal personal expression. Go take a cortisol stabilizer and jerk off for 8 hours to waifus




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