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I fell in love with this ridiculous ThinkPad-inspired keyboard from Taiwan
Reece's tale of how he fell in love with a ridiculous ThinkPad-inspired keyboard from Taiwain, and why it's a lovely reminder of a bygone age.
The little red Trackpoint nubbin has been a fixture of ThinkPad-branded laptops since 1992, but I never knew until recently that both IBM and Lenovo made standalone keyboards with this extra input device too. It was the expiry of the patent for the Trackpoint in 2017 that let the many-named "pointing stick" reappear in nicer mechanical keyboards - including the HHKB Studio that I tested last year. If you're equally in love with that ThinkPad layout, then the Shinobi fits the bill perfectly and offers everything I could have wished for in an option from this niche market segment - a huge upgrade in typing feel, easy use with modern machines, yet that classic design.
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