great for bonkin' | Kensington Expert Mouse Optical USB Trackball for PC or Mac 64325

Better than I expected! | Kensington Expert Mouse Optical USB Trackball for PC or Mac 64325

electronics:


	• Kensington Expert Mouse Optical USB Trackball for PC or Mac 64325 Kensington Kensington average customer review:based on 297 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

I really, really wanted to like this "mouse"

After several weeks of using the trackball, I am having to send it back for a refund. I tried really, really hard to like this "mouse", but the buttons just are not in great positions for easy use. I tried mapping them differently with the software, but that didn't help.

Also, since I use this mainly in graphic design related work, I do a lot of click/dragging. So, I tried getting used to using a button to "drag", but this just wasn't for me. In the end, the only setup that worked halfway decently was to map the right button for right click and the bottom left for left click. This setup made me use my thumb which is where most of my cramping happens in the first place. So that didn't work either. I, of course, tried using the top buttons for left/right clicking, but the top left button just wasn't easily reachable for me for some reason.

So with much sadness I have to say this "mouse" is not for me. It may work just fine for some or most who use it, but you won't know till you give it a try.

for more information click here

great for bonkin'

I had been spending on average over 6 hours a day typing for the past year straight. And then got a pair of gigs that had me at the computer for at least a solid 14 per day, and there was a three week stretch where I was eating drinking and sleeping at my desk - the longest stretch I spent out of the office was 4 whole hours. About 4 weeks in to this 16 weeks of madness, I started getting the dreaded pains in my hands that were the harbinger of Carpal Tunnel. Over the next week I had gotten three different keyboards, wrist supports, I even hired students to help turn my written notes into pages. I tried a few mice and a logitech track ball was recommended... which I still use as a back up. I even plunked down 5 bills for Voice Recognition software and a headset mic (Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro - pretty cool, though takes a little getting used to. Think the standard is about 200, and should work fine). Though all of those helped, for some reason I was reluctant to spend even more on something I couldn't try out before I bought. So it was another week before I sucked it up and dropped 90 bucks on the expert trackball. And I should have done it earlier. If you like trackballs, this is the cadillac. If you are getting burning and numb claw hands, get the best ergonomic keyboard you can find (I finally have the one that's split into two halves at the office now and the MS Wireless Natural Ergo-shatsis 7000 at home.) I'm finally seeing some daylight with the above gigs, and though my hands are much better, t's going to take some good R&R to get them back to speed. But out of all the things I tried, the expert track was the most user friendly, as well as the one thing that seemed to alleviate the most pain in my hands.

Also, the ball itself is big and heavy enough that if you are getting attacked by zombies or a frankenstein, you can drop that sucker into the toe of a sock and and go wild bonking spree bonking aliens, giant rodents and /or radioactive monkeus in the head with it. Probably good to have in the pokey too for putting the bonk on a few rioters.

I would however

for more information click here

Better than I expected!

I was in need of a trackball mouse because of lower arm pain due to a death grip I was using on the regular mouse. Since using the new Kensington, I have noticed a significant decrease in the pain. The trackball is super easy to operate. It may take a little getting used to, but not enough to have that be the reason for not getting one. The ball moves very smoothly and the ring for scrolling up and down may be a little stiff at first, but that definitely goes away with use. The Kensington proved to be better than I expected! So glad I got one!

for more information click here

Expert Mouse

Tech support said it would only work as two button mouse with Intel based Mac. We downloaded 3.0 from Kensington and using keyboard commands programmed all four buttons. Best mouse/trackball we ever used.

for more information click here