This IS the best DOS gaming laptop. Here’s why I can’t

13:47 The stick design used here is a force-sensing resistor based stick contrasting real TrackPoint's use of strain gauges. A longer sibling to these was still used by Unicomp until recently, who inherited the tech from Lexmark. Literally looks just like a longer version of this, still moving somewhat like a joystick and having a hexagon pattern on top! I'm not exactly sure why FSRs require the stick to move though (that's beyond me right now). Anyway, as far as I can tell, both designs spawn from the same patent (iirc, the original TrackPoint patent suggests a range of possible sensors) and Lexmark could make either stick. But IBM-branded stuff almost always got strain gauges whereas Lexmark's self-branded stuff usually got FSRs. It may appear the companies agreed to use one or the other for their own endeavours, yet I've seen AST Ascentia 900N series laptops with both stick designs (P/N 232010-xxx and 232011-xxx respectively). And when Lexmark exited keyboard production and Unicomp took over M13 (full-size buckling spring pointing stick keyboard) production for IBM, they eventually produced the only handful of FSR-stick IBM keyboards I'm aware of (for example, the IBM 3494 Track Pointer Keyboard [sic] introduced in 2003). The whole topic is something I've been wanting to further research!

Nice video about this machine, now I'd like to get one! Shame about the battery as always. How do you deal with corrosion that's spread to the board's groundplane? Pray that it just… doesn't spread?

Also MAN you're picking up subscribers fast, congrats!

Nice!!!!!