I will agree with the suggestion that Asus laptop keyboards are decent. On
the higher end models the keys have a surprising amount of travel. As for
keyboards with a trackpoint, I would suggest the TEX Yoda Trackpoint and
the Miniguru keyboards. Sadly, neither is available with any regularity
(the second seems to have had a prototype run but is currently "in
design"), and I believe the mouse is different from a traditional
trackpoint by virtue of patents.

I became very accustomed to the trackpoint on a previous laptop I had.
Since they are so rare, I've turned to tiling window managers to remove my
need of mouse.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at>
wrote:

> Am 20.11.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Daniel Frey:
> > On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote:
> >> yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to
> >> navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a
> >> prerequisite.
> >> does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the trackpoint
> >> style mini-joystick in the middle of them ?
> >
> > Yep:
> >
> http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0B47190/460/60AC6A0372B14F5BA7B12F1FF88E33C7
> >
> > I almost bought this one but I wanted a usb port on my keyboard itself
> > for my mouse, IIRC this one didn't have that.
> >
> > I have used a lenovo keyboard with it, I liked it, just wish it had a
> > USB port for the mouse.
>
> I am using a Lenovo keyboard (USB Keyboard SK-8815) for my main
> workstation for years now. Still working fine. It does not bring a
> trackpoint but has 2 USB ports .... and some special function keys I
> never managed to get working ... maybe I should take another approach as
> it might be supported for months and years now.
>
> Stefan
>
>
>