[Thinkpad] 770 ED; Medion and pointing devices.

     While I'm here...

     I found another 770 ED with a local seller of second-hand laptops a few
days ago, and I imagine I will now be able to reach the files on my old hard
disk, which was the main reason (at least recently) why I needed it - although
I have not yet done so, since it will take me a little while to organize myself
to the point where I'm ready to do this.
     But my thanks to people in this list who at various times in the past have
made suggestions to me on this matter. I haven't always responded to
individual posts, precisely because my disorganization has been so bad as to
make it impossible at times to keep up with my e-mail. (But then, sometimes if
I *do* respond to individual posts, perhaps I continue a discussion on too much
and in too much detail. I don't always find it easy to judge how far it's
appropriate to continue a discussion.)

     I also mentioned earlier a Medion laptop I had got - but I don't think I
like this computer, since it has only a touch pad, not a track point.
     I don't really like pointing devices on computers all that much in
general, unless they're clearly necessary and efficient for a particular
application; but I've found out that a track point as found on ThinkPads (and
maybe one or two other brands) is the only pointing device I find acceptable.
This is not good, really, considering how track points appear to be completely
vanishing. I just don't understand it: the superiority of this over any other
device I've so far seen just seems completely obvious to me.
     A separate mouse requires me to move my right hand away from the keyboard
to use it, which, as a touch-typist, I hate; and a touch pad just seems clumsy
and ungainly to me; and it seems to me that keeping it clean of accumulated
grease and grime from my hands might be a difficulty - no matter how much I try
to use only clean hands when using a computer. (And I am almost obsessive
about clean hands, too - yet I can find it a problem keeping laptops clean. So
a part which is operated precisely by rubbing finger-tips over it would seem
most susceptible of all to getting greasy or sweaty.)
     What I am going to do computer-wise in the long term I still don't know.
My replacement 770 ED is only a short-term fix to problems I've mentioned
before. I may yet buy another ThinkPad some time when I'm ready, for longer-
term use - but I don't feel all that confident of their continued quality under
the Lenovo incarnation, although there seem to have been different opinions on
that in this mailing list.
     I wonder if you can get used to a touch pad and even get to prefer it, or
whether, if one dislikes it, one tends to continue disliking it.

                         Regards,
                          Michael Edwards.

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