ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gets its Buttons Back
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:14 am
I hope Lenovo continues to offer the buttonless trackpad. Once you get used to it (two finger scrolling up/down, three finger swipe page forward/back, single finger tap left-click, double finger tap right-click).. going back to using the buttons feels kind of primitive. My old T61 with the tiny touchpad I used for 7 years worked fine but both of the left-click buttons were worn down.. and I think I developed calluses from all the clicking.
I think of the new buttonless trackpad as a touchscreen. I almost never use my actual touchscreen because the trackpad allows access to all of the Windows 8 functions with almost no wrist motion at all.
The adaptive function key strip and 5-row keyboard look nice, but I would prefer to be able to program each of the buttons to perform whatever function I want them to. As it is now I'm always hitting the stupid Dragon dictate button or the settings button by accident.
In closing, if you're reading this Lenovo.. revise, don't regress.