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Framework Laptop 16: our exclusive hands-on - theverge.com
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I'm actually upset that there is a laptop with this much modularity and there are no god damn physical mouse buttons in sight. Good lord. Fake buttons suck.
Look at this guy here, trying to do actual work with a trackpad. Just use it to click the next YouTube video like everyone else does during work hours.
I know you're being sarcastic, but I want to share that my daily machine is a Lenovo P50 with six individual mouse buttons. Six! I use them all, and have remapped the upper left and right click to be back and forward. These navigation buttons work in my browser, file manager, and more.
I would have expected this laptop of all laptops to have options for buttons. I don't mind the Apple touchpads, but I greatly mind how anti-consumer Apple is and don't want to fund their lawyers and patents. It seems like every other vendor is attempting to mimic Apple, but are doing a terrible job at it.
Meanwhile i had trackpads with buttons and i dont want them in my life. Get that shit outta here
(So we need both options)
It actually would be nice if we could replace that entire trackpad plate with something more useful, for people who use a mouse 100% of the time. Imagine like a programmable macropad or something.
In the article it mentioned that Framework isn't against third party mods like a swappable battery where the gpu slot goes. With this in mind, I'm sure there will be third party options with different mouse pads that actually have buttons.
Unless there physically isn't enough space.
I guess I might as well hijack the thread and ask: are there any good options left for proper buttons besides Thinkpads?
Not even ThinkPads. I can't find any aside from HP ZBooks. I don't care about HP, and they are very large and heavy. Plus, they're very expensive. Think $6k for something reasonably high-end.