No. (I'm posting this because it's something I searched for and didn't find an answer to.) The SK-8845 and its sibling the SK-8840 are IBM-branded keyboards with built-in trackpoint and trackpad. They appear to be essentially the keyboards from Thinkpad T40 (or T41, T42, T43) laptops, pulled out and put in a separate case for… Continue reading Can you swap the keyboards between a Thinkpad T40 and an IBM SK-8845?
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Windows 8: A bit like OS/2
Today in Technology Analogy Week... In 1987, three years after the world's perception of the possibilities of the PC had been changed by the Apple Mac and two years after the Mac's cheap knockoff Microsoft Windows had been released, the world's leading PC manufacturer released a new operating system. OS/2 was the perfected pinnacle of… Continue reading Windows 8: A bit like OS/2
End of the laptop line
I realised not long ago that, for my purposes, laptop PCs have stopped improving. It didn't happen recently: it just took me a long time to notice. In fact I reckon it happened about five years ago. My decline and theirs The first laptop I bought with my own money was a Vaio R600MX in… Continue reading End of the laptop line
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