Customer Reviews for Lenovo - ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II (US English) - Wired/Wireless Connectivity - Bluetooth - 2.40 GHz - USB Type A In - Black
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] No other keyboard comes close to the design of this keyboard. Light weight, good feel, fast typing speed, and hardly ever a need to look away from screen to check placement on the keyboard. Hands remain on home keys comfortably while using trackpoint. Use Bluetooth or dongle to connect to almost any devices. Slightly heavier than original Trackpoint keyboard, yet hardly noticeable.
I still haven't found a bluetooth keyboard that I can use to run Emacs productively on an Android device. This keyboard, in combination with Apedroid's "External Keyboard Helper" app, *almost* works: I can swap capslock and right-control, and I can swap backtick/tilde with escape. However, no matter what I do, I can't combine the (repositioned) control key with backslash or underscore. The hardware seems good, but the firmware's ability to be reconfigured is nonexistent, and External Keyboard Helper, strong as it is, isn't strong enough to overcome that completely. I'm disappointed. I also have several non-Bluetooth, wired USB Lenovo trackpoint keyboards (several of them, in fact). Alas, they cannot be used with my Pixel phone because the phone offers no way to connect other than Bluetooth. (And wired keyboards are so... last-century.) I have no solution other than to map the unmappable keys to new ALT combinations, because that's what External Keyboard Helper supports, but this upends 65 years of keyboarding habits dating back to the Lear-Siegler ADM-3 computer terminal, which, with deep correctness from the perspective of productivity, put the control key where IBM decreed there should always, stupidly, be a rarely-used capslock key. IBM did that to please the existing users of already-obsolete typewriters (typewriters had no control key, obviously, but IBM had a large-for-the-era customer base of ex-typewriter users). Everyone has suffered, ever since, from a productivity-poisoning need to leave the home row every time a control key is needed. Crazy. Ever since, many many computer users have struggled to remap the control key on every kind of computer and terminal. Mostly, we've succeeded in doing that. With this Bluetooth keyboard, it can *almost*, but not quite, be done. Sad.
Response from lenovo.comBy Sunil_Lenovo, Customer Service, February 22, 2022
Lenovo appreciates all feedback and thank you for taking the time to rate and review our product! We want our customers to have a superb experience as you help us to continually evaluate our current products and services, and if necessary, change to meet your needs better.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I'm doing more streaming with my TV connected to a LENOVO M900 computer. Works great. Just needed a keyboard/trackPoint device to control the computer. This keyboard is exactly what I wanted. Feels like the familiar keyboard/trackPoint on my laptop and controls the LENOVO M900 from across the room. Will purchase another of these keyboards for another location.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Bought this as a gift for someone who uses a Lenovo ThinkPad laptop because he wanted a keyboard with a similar feel as the laptop's keyboard. He absolutely loves it and uses it constantly! He says the keyboard feels very well-built and sturdy, and there've been no issues using the keyboard with a Linux operating system.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Take your ThinkPad Keyboard and make it wireless,Yes. Gain a glorious TrackPoint on your PC, Yes.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, October 15, 2020
Lenovo appreciates all feedback and thank you for taking the time to rate and review our product! We want our customers to have a superb experience as you help us to continually evaluate our current products and services, and if necessary, change to meet your needs better.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I like it better than I had expected to. It's exactly what you see, laptop keyboard chopped off the laptop. I also like that it included a wireless receiver. This let me use accross two devices, bluetooth on my laptop and use the recevier for my desktop
I purchased this keyboard so that the key strokes would be the same from my laptop to wireless keyboard, however, Fn + Arrow Buttons doesn't move the cursor to the end of the line.
Response from lenovo.comBy Adrian_Lenovo, Customer Service, September 17, 2020
Lenovo appreciates all feedback and thank you for taking the time to rate and review our product! We apologize for your inconvenience. Also, please check out more options on our website at https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/pc and contact our sales team for assistance at 1-855-253-6686.