I realize the original poster responded, but I am currently in the process of going through this transition and my experience may be of use to you. Two thumbs and index finger means select and paste are almost as fast as vi-only approaches, as it's placed so you're essentially still typing. No need to "reset" when you reach the end of trackpad or finger on scrollwheel. Thumb on middle and drag to scroll at pressure sensitive speed for as long as you press. I will left, right and middle click with thumbs as they're just below space and land there naturally. For me, if I turn sensitivity down, it ruins it. I always have to turn up acceleration, but rarely sensitivity, in Trackpoint settings a notch or two for my own preference. It is less movement and more thought for pixel perfect precision as you can barely feel any feedback but still get movement. If you keep overshooting, you haven't adjusted to gently enough. Press gently and it'll give excellent precision. Press hard and it'll fly the cursor across the screen. Treat it as a tiny proportional joystick, which it is. When I have used Thinkpads I never carried a mouse and often didn't use the mouse at my desk either. I carry a small mouse around with the Macbook. It's so long ago I forget my first encounters and learning curve. OK, I know quite a few seem to struggle with a trackpoint when first using by using actions that worked on their trackpad and other oddities. Precision and acceleration that's leagues ahead of every trackpad, including Apple, and faster than moving hand to a mouse. Middle click scroll whilst still typing, as your fingers stay on the home keys. I ultimately disabled the trackpad as I didn't use those few often enough. On my last Thinkpad you could customise the trackpad to activate differently and do entirely different things to the trackpoint. Preferably without the trackpad at all like was an option on older Thinkpads. My ideal laptop would be a 2015 Macbook Pro with Thinkpad keyboard (the older one before Lenovo moved all the keys around) and trackpoint. Over time the costs of adding higher-end features like this drop, and things like audio quality improve to the point that the workarounds aren't needed (the audio quality of my phone speaker is actually pretty amazing). I'm saying that it's not unreasonable for a manufacturer to make some tradeoffs like that when there are workarounds that work fairly well. But that would add to the cost of the laptop for every user, even the ones that don't care about having really high-quality audio on their laptop. OF COURSE having better speakers (equivalent in sound quality to the bluetooth workaround) in your laptop would be better if you care a lot about audio quality. What I'm trying to say is that if really good audio quality is important to you, then having a couple of sets of bluetooth speakers in your house strategically placed in the places where you'd regularly watch movies or consume other high-quality audio is a reasonable workaround for a lot of people. I'm not suggesting in any way that carrying around a speaker everywhere is a good idea (it's not). I'm trying to say that carrying around a bluetooth speaker IS impractical (and the initial criticism of it a type of strawman argument because it's obviously impractical). I think you've misread/misunderstood my comment. Lighter is OK, but not at a huge battery life cost compared to the 2015. Then the amount of dog and cat hair (that magically gets everywhere) that's been removed from our keyboards over the years. Dust sensitive? LOL I think back to when the kids were little and throwing rusks, or putting toast in the VCR the moment we blinked. The newer thinner keyboard was both horrible and horribly unreliable. Perhaps I have the wrong sort of fingers again. The touchbar was constantly activating when I typed on the top row of physical keys. Perhaps I have the wrong sort of fingers. Larger trackpad was so large I would constantly get false activations when typing. The rest seems to come with a cost far worse than the benefit (for me anyway). They always seem to break or get lost at the moment you're sitting with the important client. I still need to use USB sticks and SD pretty frequently and have always hated bags of adaptors. My next Macbook will probably be a Thinkpad way things are going. I updated from 2012 to 2016, hated and sold it after a couple of keyboard fails, and bought a 2015.
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