High end mobile workstations with pointer stick

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Published on 2011-03-06T17:20:47Z Indexed on 2011/03/07 8:17 UTC
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I am looking for a list of higher end mobile workstations that run Ubuntu/Kubuntu well and also have a hardware pointer stick.

Here's an illustration of one (from sciencesurvivalblog):

laptop pointer/joystick in keyboard

I wouldn't mind getting a Macbook Pro and wiping it but they refuse to use pointer sticks and to me, they are extremely efficient. I see a lot of potential for Lenovo thinkpads as well. System 76 said they have no plans to implement a hardware pointer stick so that leaves them out as well.

Any ideas?

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