Lenovo ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II (US English),Black

I have a lot of Bluetooth keyboard, but I really love this one. The trackpoint makes this one special. It’s much easier to pinpoint areas of the screen to click on than a trackpad. It’s more like a little joystick. Dragging and dropping takes some getting used to, but works very well. I use this keyboard primarily with my AR glasses and it allows me to type and scroll around the screen in bed and on the sofa. Can’t do that with a mouse. The only function I seem to consistently have trouble with is scrolling. It can definitely be done with the middle button, but it’s more difficult than 2 finger scrolling on a trackpad or scrolling with a mouse wheel. Even with that minor issue, I love the keyboard and it feels like I snagged a piece of history since these are getting much harder to find.

It's the only wireless keyboard with trackpoint. It's not perfect: - Fn key is in lower left corner and left Ctrl is to its right; they should have been swapped - what bozo at Lenovo had that layout idea? - Quality of the keys is good but very far from the level of true Thinkpad laptops, say T40. - Keys are pretty flat. They should just copy the keys profile from a T40 - that feels so much more comfortable by comparison. - Mouse keys are stupidly flat ... on Thinkpads they are very distinct so one doesn't need to look, just touch and know instantly. - Should have included the typical group of 6 keys (home, end, insert, del, pg up, pg down), separate from other keys, even if that made keyboard a bit bigger. - Arrow keys should be full size - same as normal letter keys. They had the perfect recipe for best keyboard in the world, they used it for decades in Thinkpads ... but Lenovo had to mess it up ... I wonder, is it cheaper to make bad keyboards or new Lenovo engineers are incompetent? Regardless, it gets 5 stars from me ... because I need a wireless trackpoint keyboard and there's no alternative.

This keyboard is exceptional quality. The only issue I have is the mouse pad needs to be lower as I'm constantly hitting the space bar thinking it is the click. Charge seems to last forever. Check pointer works very well.

This is exact duplicate of the standard Lenovo laptop keyboard. It literally sat on top of a coworkers new Lenovo and there was very little difference in size and layout. I am not a Lenovo user, but, I've been searching for a replacement "desktop/laptop" setup using Android smartphones and external displays. This is helping make my vision a reality as I can get the mouse functionality without a mouse using the trackpoint on this keyboard. It's been a bit tricky but once connected is working as intended. Also, it's very slim and light. Easier to slip this into a travel bag than the low profile options I've found.

There is no way to enable function key lock. If all you use is media keys then maybe you can use this pricey keyboard, but if you need traditional F1-F12 keys, you are out of luck. There is a LED light on the the escape key that one would think showed the function lock was enabled, but there is no way to turn it on. There is no app setting, nothing. I've read the blogs and this is a confirmed flaw, nobody has found a way to hack this outside of opening it and doing soldering. You can remap a couple of the keys in Windows using PowerTools, but you can't map all of them because PowerTools doesn't know how to read some of the media keys. What was Lenovo thinking? This product appears to be completely unsupported - It has been out for a long time and there has been no fixes from Lenovo for this fatal flaw. Another thing is it takes too long to wake up from sleep, and when it does it often repeats the character you used to wake it up 50+ times, you then need to clean up the gibberish. This thing is a hot mess.

Happy with the product and transaction.

This is a good keyboard in terms of being a keyboard. The keys feel responsive and the TrackPoint works as it should. However the USB receiver connection is awful. There are some places on my desk where it can get signal, but I find that some letters get lost while typing if the keyboard moves an inch to the right. The receiver has direct line-of-sight to the keyboard, and there are still issues. If you are using Bluetooth, then you might have better luck. I think that if Lenovo tried a third time, they might come out with a really good keyboard. As it stands, the issues make it an OK keyboard.

I want an aluminum body version. There is a slight bend in the middle of mine like others have reported, but it's mostly not noticeable. The key travel is supreme and has made me realize Logitch's best keyboards are garbage living in this keyboards shadow. I was most excited for the Trackpoint but it needs a higher mouse speed setting than I prefer when switching between Trackpoint and a real mouse. Turn off mouse acceleration in windows for the best results. Battery life seems fine, but it doesn't display accurately, it's always stuck at 28%. That doesn't matter much since good boys/girls use 2.4ghz. All in all a package you can't find anywhere else.