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Help Me Find A Laptop! Gaming Laptop With Trackpoint

post #1 of 7
3/20/07 at 4:51am
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Like the title says, I need a Gaming Laptop, its mostly for the upcoming Unreal Tournament (3) 2007 and I want it decent FPS and also Require a Trackpoint as I hate Touchpads, any suggestions, Budget is under $2k
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post #2 of 7
3/21/07 at 3:15am
Don't reckon that's happening in the near future. The only two notebook brands that are easily found in the US that have the trackpoint are Dell's Latitude and Lenovo's Thinkpad. Dell released the D820 (which would be about as close as you're gonna get to a gaming Laptop with trackpoint) a year ago. It will most likely be another year before they update again for Intel's Santa Rosa, and it still won't have graphics capable of the performance you desire. Thinkpads are worse spec wise and Lenovo's further behind the curve than Dell is.

There MIGHT be something available overseas that is not sold in the US. The problem with importing though is customs taxes as well as the foreign keyboard layouts and OS versions. Then there's also the lack of a power cord that works in the Western Hemisphere.

I'll tell you right now, the average consumer doesn't care about the Trackpoint, they think both the pad and the stick suck and use a mouse with their Laptops. By and Large it's only corporate users that care about the trackpoint. The laptop makers are only going to make what they can sell the most of with the biggest profit margin.
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post #3 of 7
3/21/07 at 11:08am
I don't even know what track point is lol. Whats a track point? It seems something that is unique. Add that to gaming laptops which aren't the biggest=probably like no gaming laptops with track point, sorry.
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post #4 of 7
3/21/07 at 4:37pm
Forget the trackpoint/trackstick nonsense.
Who games with trackpoint/trackstick/trackpad anyway?
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post #5 of 7
3/23/07 at 12:56am
Yeah, the bigger part is the fact that NOBODY games with the trackpoint or touchpad. Any self respecting gamer would carry around SOME FORM of mouse with his gaming notebook. The only reason they include the touchpad is because the Laptop does need some sort of integrated pointer and a touchpad is significantly cheaper to include than a trackstick....less problematic too. Those things have a tendency to get stuck in one direction. I own 2 Dell Laptops and 3 IBM keyboards with the trackpoint and all of them get stuck in one direction from time to time.
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post #6 of 7
3/23/07 at 4:01am
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I dont game with Trackpoint, I use it for normal Usage, its a lot faster and easier for me for normal using, for Games I use a Mouse, but I hate using a Mouse when I am doing basic stuff
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post #7 of 7
3/23/07 at 10:19am
My friends and i will occasionally get together and have a round of "Touchpad Ut2k4"
Needless to say, kill counts are very very low.
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