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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:48:38 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        Peter Sandilands <peter@sandilands.vu>, FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 3 years and going strong! 
Message-ID:  <20060813004838.C613745055@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:16:34 PDT." <20060813001634.GA11474@thought.org> 

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> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:35:22AM +1000, Peter Sandilands wrote:
> 
> 	Thanks, you guys.  I don't have anything against > 866, etc.  
> 	I just figured that anything over a GHz *had* to have been
> 	"upgraded" to the std scratch-pad.  If not, then wow!

Gary,

As far as i know, all ThinkPads still use the TrackPoint(tm). IBM invented it 
and it is quite popular. Seems to be a binary function. You love it or you 
hate it. I have not met anyone who was in the "don't care" category.

My fairly shiny new T43 has one as does a co-worker's new T60. I don't know 
about the new, low-cost 3000 series, but I believe that all other ThinkPads 
have a track point as do many Dell and HP systems. Probably other brands, too.

Oddly, the scratch-pad must be disabled to enable the middle button. This has 
never made sense to me, but it seems that is the way it is.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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