Comment by dekhn
4 days ago
In England the nub was referred to as the nipple.
I had a series of think pads. I think the last one was a t61p running Lennox and it was truly glorious. I can't remember if it was that model or an earlier one which had a battery known as the tumor which stuck out the back. You could hibernate the laptop and swap in another battery and turn the laptop back on and keep working without rebooting.
Everything since then for me has been MacBooks or Dell laptops. Neither brings me as much joy.
I went to a college in Utah (USA) that issued ThinkPads to every student. Since 90% of the students were guys, of course it was called the nipple.