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