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Didn’t Lenovo have this for years?
I still wouldn’t purchase an HP laptop, but this is a positive development. Though you are better checking out System76 laptops.
Why?
https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp
They’re honestly just quite shit. They’re notoriously unreliable, use cheap parts, break often, and are very prone to overheating.
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I have an older HP laptop with a similar trackpoint style pointer. They are not as good as the real TrackPoints, because they lack the middle button in the buttons at the top of the track pad, so there’s no way to scroll while using that pointer. It doesn’t bother me because I am much more used to using a track pad anyway, but it’s definitely not interchangeable.