From my recollection (or at least my experience with my old Latitude CPx J,) dual-mouse on the Latty is nothing new. For exactly how long they've shared the trait with the Thinkpad series I am not sure, but it's still a nice feature to have. My favorite was using the stick for dedicated scrolling, and the touch pad for everything else. Redundant mouse buttons are also a curiously useful feature at times.
Of course it shouldn't need a pair of mouse devices. It also shouldn't have that keyboard, should it? After all, as you point out, it's a multi-touch tablet so what on earth do you need any other HIDs for?
I have the x61, and I would kill to have the touchpad instead of the trackpoint. Seriously, the thing is so stiff my fingers hurt after using it for more than five minutes. Occasionally, the cursor will dance across the screen at random as well because of the stiffness of the trackpoint.
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um, isn't this a IBM Thinkpad x61t? it even has the nipple!
From my recollection (or at least my experience with my old Latitude CPx J,) dual-mouse on the Latty is nothing new. For exactly how long they've shared the trait with the Thinkpad series I am not sure, but it's still a nice feature to have. My favorite was using the stick for dedicated scrolling, and the touch pad for everything else. Redundant mouse buttons are also a curiously useful feature at times.
Although what the hell am I say.... it's a TABLET, with MULTI-TOUCH! It shouldn't need a pair of mouse devices!!!
Of course it shouldn't need a pair of mouse devices. It also shouldn't have that keyboard, should it? After all, as you point out, it's a multi-touch tablet so what on earth do you need any other HIDs for?
Lol, yeah, except the Dell has a 1.2ghz Core Duo and the Lenovo has a 1.8ghz Core Duo.
I have the x61, and I would kill to have the touchpad instead of the trackpoint. Seriously, the thing is so stiff my fingers hurt after using it for more than five minutes. Occasionally, the cursor will dance across the screen at random as well because of the stiffness of the trackpoint.