That's the one you want to use instead of any other finger. At this point the tip of your middle finger should touch the trackpoint. Without moving your little finger, cup your hand a little bit as it you were holding an egg between the tips of your fingers, and let your thumb fall until it touches the left button for the trackpoint. Without turning your hand, put the tip of the little finger on the K (on an English keyboard - for other keyboards, that is a key on the third row from bottom, the middle of that key lines up with the the right end of the space key). Put your hand over the keyboard sideways, with the palm facing toward the left side of the palmrest and your thumb up in the air. This is for the right hand - similar trick works for the left hand. I've seen a lot of people fighting with it by using their index finger, but there is a way to use it for hours without any stress.

Just a little suggestion if your hand gets tired using the trackpoint. The Sony SZ series looks pretty nice and Sony's screens are generally excellent, but it's expensive and my past experience with Sony quality and support hasn't been the greatest.Īny other thoughts on this class of machine? Anyone know what's next for the X-series? Any rumors of a wide-screen version? For my tastes, a widescreen X-series with a touchpad would be pretty much perfect. The Dell D420 looks pretty good - the two worst things about it are the 1.8' hard drive (I can overlook this for now - I expect bigger, faster drives of this type will be coming along in the next year) and that Dell generally sells pretty mediocre laptops. I like the idea of a small widescreen - it's 30% more pixels than XGA and looks like it would be easier to use on a plane. I don't need any fancy graphics or even particularly high performance. My main problem with the X60 is its lack of a touchpad - I'd really like to find a machine with both a touchpad and a pointing stick because my hands get tired when using just one for extended period of time. I've been doing a little research on an ultraportable in the class of the X60.

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