It's 2023, and Lenovo just sent me a laptop to review featuring a familiar red dot in the middle of the keyboard. The laptop in question is the latest ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which I've been looking forward to getting my hands on. And being a ThinkPad, it has the TrackPoint. Or the nub, the nipple, or whatever else you want to call it. After all, the ThinkPad is 30 years old, and this is one of its defining features across that time.
There was a time long ago I used this thing every single day. So, when I say that it's time it was retired for good, it isn't just some kind of irrational hatred of a thing that (apparently) many still love. I was once a TrackPoint wizard. But those days deserve to be left in the past. I'm not alone, either. This came up as a topic of discussion with my colleague, Ben Wilson, while he was writing his ThinkPad X1 Yoga review.
