This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo old-style non-chicklet keyboard, so, despite the cost, five were ordered.

But the TrackPoint, though not as mainstream, has been around longer. A red dot in the center of the ThinkPad’s keyboard has ...

Lenovo’s iconic crimson red TrackPoint nub, which has been going strong for three decades, is a staple of ThinkPad laptops. However, this year at CES, Lenovo announced that it’s ditching the nub on ...

The red TrackPoint on Lenovo’s ThinkPads is one of them ... Key upgrades include: The physical button keyboard is also gone. It’s been replaced with a more minimalist design.

The keyboard is compact, but both accessories are solid. Lenovo ThinkPad devices are known ... devices specifically because of the decades-old TrackPoint nub and physical touchpad buttons.

But it’s highly unlikely the keyboard is going to disappear ... it isn’t surprising Lenovo removed the TrackPoint from one of its ThinkPads; the prevalence of the trackpad and declining ...