Like many business - grade laptops before it, the Toshiba Portege includes
a rubber pointing stick between the G, H, and B keys.
There's no trackpad either, but the touchscreen will take care of most things although there is a green, ThinkPad - style
rubber pointing stick that Acer calls the FineTrack.
Not exact matches
Hysteresis, where a material's performance relies upon its history — like the weakening of the
rubber in a car tyre due to repeated use — is also a
sticking point for Eva Unger, a postdoc at Lund University, Sweden.
If your neighbor's child flushes a
rubber duck down the toilet, and it
sticks in the wrong place in the pipe, every toilet in your apartment building could overflow because the sewer line from each apartment comes together at a central
point somewhere before joining the sewer line at the street.
The tiny
rubber nub looks and feels like the
pointing stick you'll find in many business laptops, but it's surprisingly responsive and does an admirable job handling functions that are typically performed with a right analog
stick on console controllers.
If your neighbor's child flushes a
rubber duck down the toilet, and it
sticks in the wrong place in the pipe, every toilet in your apartment building could overflow because the sewer line from each apartment comes together at a central
point somewhere before joining the sewer line at the street.
If your neighbor's kid flushes a
rubber duck down the toilet, and it
sticks at the
point where all the pipes join, eventually that's going to impact you and your plumbing, with no warning whatsoever.