What is your favorite TrackPoint cap? (Please vote)

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Which Thinkpad TrackPoint cap is your favorite?

Poll ended at Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:07 pm

Classic Dome (the sandpaper feeling one)
10
40%
Soft Dome (has the little nubs on it)
12
48%
Soft Rim (like a crater hit the cap)
3
12%
 
Total votes: 25

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What is your favorite TrackPoint cap? (Please vote)

#1 Post by lfeagan » Fri Oct 29, 2004 11:07 pm

So, I just wanted to hear which Thinkpad TrackPoint cap was people's favorite because I was curious. Feel free to also mention why you like the one you like and what you don't like about the others. I thought this might be fun for people to talk about too.

My favorite is the classic dome, though I am warming up to the new soft dome. The new soft rim actually gives me a lot of control over the pointer, but I actually feel almost stuck in its concave middle. Also, the rim around it feels too small for my index finger. I actually think if I was only mousing that the rim is the best pointing device, but I rarely mouse and its larger diameter and taller height annoys me as it somewhat gets in the way of the key and I tend to type far more than I mouse.
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#2 Post by Plinkerton » Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:50 am

I like the controlability of the Soft Rim, but I don't use it because it sticks up too much. I really like the Soft Dome as a compromise of all of them. The standard eraser thing is okay, but so far, soft dome for me.

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#3 Post by Elhabash » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:45 am

The soft dome is quite nice. I don't like the classic one because I saw it scratching the monitor on other computers already, and the t40 is just too thin to afford this dome.
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