I have a Thinkpad X40. I love it. It has no trackpad, just a trackpoint. That works for me; I can use the trackpoint all day, but when I have to use another lappy which is trackpad only, I invariably plug in an external mouse at the earliest opportunity.
BUT, it's getting to the point I could use a bit more compute, and maybe screen resolution too. I run Linux; most of the time I'm using the lappy as a thin client to servers (and it'll probably be good for that for years more), but it's when I'm traveling, off-net and having to crunch things locally I find I'm needing more CPU clout these days.
So I'm considering upgrading to a later X series (not necessarily new; e.g refurb X60s are going pretty cheap these days).
So my questions are:
- Do Lenovo still make any Thinkpad models without trackpads ? If they do it's not obvious from looking over their website but maybe there are some lurking around in the 'e' or 'i' suffixed configurations.
- What were the last X-series models made without trackpads (or if it was an option, which models am I likely to be able to find trackpad-less refurbs) ?
(Yes I know you can switch the trackpad off; but it'd just offend me having one there getting in the way.)
