{"id":19008,"date":"2010-06-11T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=19008"},"modified":"2010-06-11T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:13:13","slug":"where-have-all-the-good-touchpads-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/where-have-all-the-good-touchpads-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the good touchpads gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest blog post, TR&#8217;s Cyril Kowaliski laments the poor quality of touchpads on modern laptops. Once a fan of the IBM TrackPoint, Cyril was seduced by the huge glass touchpads of Apple&#8217;s aluminum MacBooks, and he wonders why PC makers have chosen to emulate the outside appearance of those machines but not their ergonomics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techreport.com\/discussions.x\/19063\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/techreport.com\/discussions.x\/19063', 'http:\/\/techreport.com\/discussions.x\/19063']);\" >http:\/\/techreport.com\/discussions.x\/19063<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest blog post, TR&#8217;s Cyril Kowaliski laments the poor quality of touchpads on modern laptops. Once a fan of the IBM TrackPoint, Cyril was seduced by the huge glass touchpads of Apple&#8217;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2535],"tags":[332,427,593,3316,3740],"class_list":["post-19008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-news","tag-apple","tag-ibm","tag-mac","tag-touchpad","tag-trackpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}