{"id":513,"date":"2007-03-27T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/03\/27\/lazyweb-trackpoint-keyboard\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:31:41","slug":"lazyweb-trackpoint-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/03\/27\/lazyweb-trackpoint-keyboard","title":{"rendered":"Missing Trackpoint Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazyweb.org\/\">Lazyweb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Is it really impossible to find a full-sized USB keyboard with a built-in trackpoint mouse device but no touchpad?<\/p>\n<p>The logical manufacturer would be IBM\/Lenovo; however, the current <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.lenovo.com\/SEUILibrary\/controller\/catalog.workflow:show-category-with-items?category-id=32DC77FF9F7C48E78298CB802038DD45&amp;show-page=2\">Lenovo keyboards<\/a> either provide no built-in pointing device or have both a trackpoint and a touchpad (&#8220;UltraNav&#8221;).  I&#8217;ve checked in all the regular places: eBay, Pricewatch, Amazon, Froogle, craigslist, etc., and no one has a keyboard with just a trackpoint. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one with this simple request.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/IBM-TrackPoint-USB-SpaceSaver-French-Canadian-keyboard_W0QQitemZ5170814467QQcategoryZ33965QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem\">This eBay auction<\/a> is the closest I could find. That keyboard is &#8220;French Canadian,&#8221; which might not matter, but it is also a &#8220;SpaceSaver&#8221; model with no numeric keypad and is generally more compressed than I need.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, it is next to impossible to find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fingerworks.com\/ST_product.html\">Touchstream Keyboard<\/a> anymore, another brand I was interested in.<\/p>\n<p>I often run into this sort of problem. It undermines my faith in the web as approximating a perfect marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lazyweb: Is it really impossible to find a full-sized USB keyboard with a built-in trackpoint mouse device but no touchpad? The logical manufacturer would be IBM\/Lenovo; however, the current Lenovo keyboards either provide no built-in pointing device or have both a trackpoint and a touchpad (&#8220;UltraNav&#8221;). I&#8217;ve checked in all the regular places: eBay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}