This is the story of one person’s desire to have the venerable trackpoint in their new keyboard. [Klapse] loves a Lenovo old-style non-chicklet keyboard, so, despite the cost, five were ordered.

[Frank Adams] liked the keyboard on his Lenovo ThinkPad T61 so much that he decided to design an adapter so he could use it over USB with the Teensy microcontroller. He got the Trackpoint working ...

But fret-not, loyal TrackPoint users: your trusty pointing ... while the 15-incher starts at 3.19 pounds. The keys of the keyboard technically retain their bowed-bottom design, but that’s ...

Lenovo finally ditches the iconic little red nubbin on this ThinkPad, which raises the question: Is it still a ThinkPad?