What is TrackPoint?
TrackPoint™ is IBM®’s pointing stick, a device embedded in the keyboard of some laptops that allows for cursor movement. The TrackPoint looks like the tip of a red eraser and sits between the G and H keys on a QWERTY keyboard, dead center of the home row. Touch typists use the home row to rest their fingers, making the pointing stick the only pointing device typists can use to move the cursor without taking their fingers off the keyboard. The TrackPoint with its replaceable rubber cap is manipulated with the tip of the index finger. The pointing stick is essentially designed as a miniaturized joystick. Applied pressure in any direction pushes the cursor in the same direction. The more force applied to the device, the faster the cursor’s velocity. Left and right mouse buttons are located just below the spacebar on models equipped with a TrackPoint. Laptops that come with a pointing stick might also have a touchpad built into the wrist rest below the keyboard. A touchpad is a small, sens
