

I then went hunting around on eBay and came across this auction – THINKPAD T440P T440S T440 T450S Touchpad Clickpad With Left and Right three keys. When Lenovo announced the new series of ThinkPads (Incuding the T450s) I was extremely happy to see that they had brought the physical buttons back, this however left me with a dialemma – I really wanted the buttons but other than that, there was really no major benefit over my T440s to warrant spending that much money on a replacement machine. Not only is this a total pain to get working in software, it has several serious flaws that make using it a very frustrating experience – Namely the fact that there was no way to tell which button you were pressing leading to frequent mistakes.

In November 2013 I purchased a new ThinkPad T440s, this had the new clickpad design where the physical TrackPoint buttons had been replaced with software emulated buttons on the clickpad itself.

Like many ThinkPad users, I use the TrackPoint pointing stick almost exclusively.
