PC keyboards

Alexandre Souza wrote: Love those... I got spoilt on those on the past two jobs where I had a Thinkpad. I find it's a lot nicer to use the {trackpoint|clitoris|nipple} pointer than a mouse, trackpad, or trackball - your hands never leave the keyboard to use them like with a mouse. It's always annoying to have to lift my hand off the keyboard just to point at something. :-) Although I love my MacBook Pro, I had a hell of a time adjusting from two years of ThinkPad keyboard to it. I still hate the trackpad so I've gone back to "Kensington Expert Mouse" trackballs... I still have the MouseTrack ones for my Sun machines... Those little accupoint guys are really analog joystics. I replaced a dead one on a SPARCBook by sacrificing a junk Thinkpad keyboard. http://www.sunder.net/SPARCbook has all the gory details. :-) They're fun little beasts. I had plans to replace another dead with an analog joystick from a junk Playstation 1 controller, but never did it... trouble was where to place it on the SPARCBook?... It's better to replace them with the thinkpad versions since they're the same thing, though the connectors are completely different and you have to work with those annoying flex ribbon cables. (I suppose if you wanted to you could replace the analog joysticks on Playstation controllers with a pair of nipples, but they'd probably be slower to use than the original ones - the problem is that the resistances are different, so you have to add other resistors to adjust them.)