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 ...

Arimasa Naitoh, Lenovo's Vice-President of Development is affectionately known as the father of the ThinkPad. He's also the inventor of the ThinkPad's ever-present red trackpoint nub – an input device ...

When I sit down to write an article about a laptop I recently reviewed, my most immediate thoughts are usually focused on a ...

Rest in peace, Trackpoint. We barely needed ye. Although a pointing stick — which is apparently the brand-agnostic name for the Trackpoint — was popular on laptops in the late 1990s and early 2000s, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It goes by many names: the TrackPoint, the nub, the mouse nipple, the pointing stick, the weird red dot on your ...

In this issue's roundup of portable PCs, the Dell Latitude C610 garners our Editors' Choice among mainstream entries. But the IBM ThinkPad T30 made it into this issue just under the wire, and the ...

Those who didn’t come up in the professional world during IBM’s heyday, yet work on one of Lenovo’s ThinkPad laptops today, might wonder why the TrackPoint is still around. After all, it was IBM’s ...

What just happened? Few laptops are as iconic as IBM's (err, Lenovo's) ThinkPad. From the solid black chassis to the bright red TrackPoint, it immediately stands out from the pack. Now thanks to ...

The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II ($85.99) takes the ThinkPad experience back to its Japanese minimalist roots. Inspired by the simple design of Bento lunch boxes, distinctive black ThinkPad ...

In 2.4.x series kernels my TrackPoint works as I would expect it. When I push the "scroll" button nothing happens, when I push the scroll button and move the trackpoint down, the window scrolls down, ...

The Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II ($85.99) takes the ThinkPad experience back to its Japanese minimalist roots. Inspired by the simple design of Bento lunch boxes, distinctive black ThinkPad ...