From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Retrograde  wrote:   
   > From the <> department:   
   > Title: Long live the nub: ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets,   
   designs that never made it   
   > Author: Avram Piltch   
   > Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:32:05 +0000   
   > Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025   
   08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/   
      
   On the nub, this got to a sore (Track)point for me:   
      
   "Hill said that he also changed the height of the TrackPoint over   
    the years, making it shorter as the laptops themselves got thinner"   
      
   Ah, so there was a reason for that. I assumed it was just for   
   aesthetics, but I've never liked the short TrackPoints. It's   
   uncomfortable pushing against a nearly flat surface. They seemed   
   to turn the sensitivity way up to compensate, so you don't have   
   to push as hard, but it still doesn't work for me. Instead it's one   
   of many reasons I'm still using a 25 year old Thinkpad most of the   
   time, resorting to a newer model only when I need to browse   
   horrible modern websites with it.   
      
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