Kensington Expert Wireless Trackball Mouse, Ergonomic 55mm Trackball

Great trackball. Easy to connect; just plug the dongle in, and it's good to go. Really good size of trackball allows me to use three fingers to navigate precisely with my non-dominant hand. Comfortable to use from the couch too. The buttons click nicely and the scroll wheel works well. It's definitely a little bit pricey, but definitely worth it to be able to rest my injured dominant hand but still be able to enjoy good precision when using my home PC. The ball comes out easily to clean, so I wouldn't want to take this loose in my bag into the office, but that isn't really a consideration for me since I've switched this one out for the Orbit Fusion, which I'll take to work instead.

I had the Kensington orbit with scroll wheel previously, which stopped working after 18 months. Kensington is willing to send out a replacement which will take 2 weeks which is a long wait. Decided to get the expert as an upgrade as I cant wait that long for a mouse. The expert is a much bigger unit and the ball is probably double the size. Overall it you feel it is a better product and has 4 programmable buttons instead of the normal 2. Ironically because of the size of the ball and the placement of the buttons. I dont have the top 2 buttons as left and right click. I have bottom left as left click and top right as right click. There is one slight niggle the scroll wheel is a little too close to the right buttons so sometimes you nudge the right buttons when using the scroll wheel. If you are on a budget the orbit is fine but if you use the mouse a lot, the expert maybe worth considering

Pros: Truly ergonomic. Very fast to get from one corner to another corner of a large screen. You don't need to move it around like a mouse. Hand and wrist practically unaffected, no pain whatsoever. Easy to clean. It looks very cool. Cons: Considerably more difficult to click onto a specific point of the screen. Not a problem if you need to perform such a task occasionally, but may feel tiring if you need to do it regularly. e.g., you need to click many times into tick boxes. Somewhat more difficult to scroll. Quite large. Conclusion: Will it replace a mouse? Probably not. Will a mouse replace it? Definitely not, it is a completely different type of "animal", but you need to get used to it.

Why, why did I wait to buy one of these it's beyond brilliant. First up let me explain, about 3 months before buying this I had a fall and broke my wrist, broke 2 bones and did some ligament damage - ouch, yes it's as painful as it sounds and if you take nothing else away from this review be careful with icy pavements. The healing from a broken wrist can take up to a year in some cases and a lot of pain ensues while thats happening, when I had a cast on for 6 weeks towards the end there was no discomfort hardly at all so in my head it's yay, cast off, back to normal, rock on. Er no, as the cast came off my reaction was mm ow ow OW OW! MOTHERFU.... that hurts, and so began a quest to find someting I could use comfortably and get my extremely bored arse back to work. So finally, the trackball itself, what can I say, silky smooth operation from the actual ball, being 55mm across it means you can control it with three fingers if needs be, the four buttons around the ball are totally customisable if you download a small application from Kensingtons website and you aren't limited to four functions either, you can add keys to each button so you get a different function if you press shift, or control, or alt or the win key so four individual functions on each of four buttons - that's a lot of shortcuts. In addition to this you can specify a set of shortcuts for each application, the combinations and permutations are mind boggling. There is also a scroll wheel right next to the ball and again it's customisable in terms of speed and direction and inertia which I tried but didn't like but it's worth looking at it to see if it works for you. There is of course the usual pointer speed control which using a super ultra wide high resolution monitor I have set quite high to quickly move around the huge screen area, that is fine but it's not the most precise method - however Kensington have thought of that too, you can set one of three keys to instantly and temporarily lower the pointer speed making precision a doddle, there is even a setting to lock the movement to just vertical or horizontal movement in a single axis and while this might not sound like the pinnacle of technology if say you have a bunch of tabs open in a browser or are going through a bunch of drop down menus in a professional application such as Photoshop or illustrator - which I do all day every day while doing actual work it just makes it even easier - hence quicker to use. It's just one more reason to like this trackball and why I will NEVER go back to using a mouse again - ever. Looking at one of the other reviews there was a criticism that you had to float your arm to use the trackball and it placed strain on your arm/wrist - well as this was the entire reason I'd been looking at things like this trackball to reduce just that and allow me to get back to work take a look at this... https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0752MCX82/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's basically a device that clamps to your desk and cradles your arm taking the weight and strain away from your arm - and crucially for me the wrist, a combination of that cradle and this trackball means I have a perfectly straight arm position from the elbow to fingertips and the sometimes unbearable pain of using a mouse - and i've tried 6, everything from gaming mice to really thin bluetooth mice to smaller sized mice, even a vertical mouse has gone, I can use this for hours with nothing more than the odd twinge - using a mouse all day I'd have to mainline so many painkillers it'd turn me into a zombie. Very seldom do I buy anything that makes a real improvement to my daily life but this is definitely one of those times and I don't like this trackball I love it.

So as the reviews all seem to be tied into each other, this review is for the Kensington Wireless Trackball Expert Mouse (Red ball + 4 buttons) Crap. I have several of the Kensington Orbit Optical Wired USB Trackball Mouse with Scroll Ring (blue ball) and they are absolutely superb so I thought I would take a punt on the much more expensive wireless version to help me move about with my laptop (I hate the trackpad on my work laptop). 1st problem - I wanted to be mobile with this. Made an incorrect assumption that the ball was the same sort of size as the blue one in the orbit. BZZZZZT. It's massive. This thing has a direct influence on the earth's tides. 2nd problem - The planet-sized orb falls out if turned upside down which, if you want to be mobile like me then this is a constant annoyance (the blue orbit version holds the sphere in place) 3rd problem - the scroll wheel is appalling. I read reviews saying that it was crap and thought maybe people weren't used to it or something, how bad could it be compared to the smooth and accurate one on the Orbit version (you can flick that one and it will spin and keep going, for me also useful). This one will move and that's the best I can say about it. It feels crap and uncomfortable to use. The size of the ball also makes it an issue if you want to twist the wheel more than 1 cm. I know there are ways to improve this and was going to do so but after the next problem I decided not to bother. 4th problem - The deal breaker for me was that the main selling point was that it was wireless Bluetooth. I also have a pair of BT headphones and the 2 do not get on even when not connected to the same device. When my headphones (Bose QC-35 if that is relevant) are on, this trackball drops off every 10 seconds. I don't know who is to blame but even if it is my headphones fault, they win this round. Summary - It's like this has been made by a completely different company to the one that made my beloved Orbit. Tried my best to put up with all of its foibles and for 20 quid, I might have but this thing cost me over £100. Not a chance, had to go back.

Mouse works well. Does what Mice do and that is all one can ask. BUT it claims the top buttons do things. They do not. The bottom buttons work alright, except, well only one is usable. The left in my case. The other three are for my needs pointless. ALSO when I turn on my computer the cursor doesn't show up nor become usable till I jiggle the ring or click on the left lower button. Something isn't right about the ball and the sensors when one starts trying to use the mouse. Getting it to run the cursor becomes a bit frustrating. Once it is working the mouse is a life saver for my needs. Arthritis in my hands makes this a must have. Despite the poor startup problem.

The Kensington Expert mouse was an an Amazon resale at a very good price. Unfortunately I couldn’t get it work using Bluetooth and I had decided to return it,. Amazon gave me the option of contacting Kensington technical support and he helped me by explaining that it would work with the suppled dongle MovingThe Bluetooth switch on the base allows for the the dongle. After that it worked fine and it saved me from returning it.

You don't know you've lived until you've used one of these trackballs. It takes a little getting used to but persevere and it's the dog's you-know-what's. I've used one on my old computer for years and now have one for my new speedy computer! One's on a dongle and the other's on Bluetooth. Until you try the easy, one hand action with no wrist or arm movement needed, you won't have lived. These are not cheap, but my enthusiasm means I've bought a 2nd one for my 2nd machine. Fabulous piece of kit. So easy if it starts to go wonky, lob out the ball, ensure its rollers are clean, give a blow to the sensor and you're away again. Far easier than cleaning the accumulated detritus from the bottom of a mouse and far easier to use. I love Kensington trackballs, unlike other brands, they work well beyond their warranty date! I've tried 'em all and this is the only brand that works on and on and on.

Great product after Using it you can't go back for normal mouse

Desde que lo uso ya no se me cansa la muñeca, a pesar de que lo utilizo unas seis horas al día. He ganado en productividad porque, gracias a su gran bola, puedo situar el cursor exactamente donde quiero a gran velocidad. Los cuatro pulsadores de que dispone son grandes, sensibles y cómodos para usar. Aunque puede configurarse para que la pulsación conjunta de dos botones adyacentes sea equivalente a otro botón, esto no me resulta práctico porque es difícil hacer la pulsación simultánea.

A trackball is nothing I would have considered in the past as most of my PC time is used for gaming and being able to do work has always just been a "bonus" of the platform. However, over the course of the wonderful year of 2020, I had to find solutions to working from home and purchased not just one, but two trackballs. I first started with Logitech's M570 (wireless) and followed it up a couple of months later with the Kensington Expert Wireless. Chances are that if you're seriously considering transitioning to a trackball, you are looking at exactly these two models or their wired siblings. Both solved a very simple problem of making the most of confined space. For my gaming and personal PC, I have a typical desk setup with a brick of a gaming mouse, but for the work laptop I lugged home with me, the idea was that it was a temporary thing and I'd be back in the office with a full desk in no time. Three quarters of a year later and the work machine is growing roots in an old TV table. I managed for a very long time as I was quite comfortable with simply using the built-in trackpad, but when they replaced my machine with a new one, I could no longer work without wanting to throw it out the window. The 'brilliant' minds that designed the new trackpad clearly never used one as they removed the physical buttons that bisected the pad and made the pad itself one giant button that would only right click if you used the very bottom right corner. So now I needed a mouse, but TV trays don't have the runway for effective mouse use. Enter the trackball. Since trackballs stay put, they can sit comfortably in a small space and you still have full use of your cursor. The second thing both trackballs solved was the right-click issue. While the M570 has more traditional placement of buttons like a regular mouse, the Kensington Expert (herein "Expert") has four fairly large buttons that can be tapped easily regardless of what hand position you take. Since the laptop's trackpad cut the right-click distance by 2/3rds and I live and die by context menus, I needed that functionality without feeling the need to break equipment. The above issues are solved by pretty much any trackball device available in the market today, so what it really comes down to aside from general reliability and longevity is preference. First off, while the M570 seems sturdy enough, the Expert feels like a tank. It has a fairly large footprint compared to the relatively mouse-sized M570, but the Expert also has a much larger ball (maybe three times bigger?) and is heavier and kept in place with rubber feet. As mentioned above, it has four large programmable buttons surrounding the trackball and a rubbery ridged wheel that provides you with your scrolling (compared to Kensington's Slimblade which has you twisting the ball in the socket to scroll instead). The Expert uses the bottom left button (by default) for left click and the bottom right for right click. Since the ball is finger operated as opposed to thumb-operated M570, you typically use your thumb and pinky to click and right-click respectively. It takes some getting used to, but it really becomes second nature pretty quickly. On top of that, you get two extra programmable button assignments by clicking the top two or the bottom two buttons together. Despite its wider footprint, the Expert has become my go-to device for work while the M570 has been repurposed for the media machine I have connected to my TV. While it comes with a very sturdy wrist pad to help with your ergonomics, since I sit higher than the Expert instead of level with it, I find it feels better without the pad attached. The larger ball is much easier to manipulate and makes more logistical sense than when using the thumb ball of the M570 and Kensington's software allows you to set up keyboard hotkeys to assist with accuracy. For example, I can hold the Ctrl key to drastically slow down the cursor (this is completely customizable) so I can select specific things or position the cursor with precision. For cleaning, the ball is held in the device by gravity only and can be easily lifted out without having to lift the base unit (and it's kinda fun to do that anyway). Underneath you'll have access to the sensor as well as the three beads or skates that the ball rides on. I don't find that the ball is a dust magnet, but normal use will see crud accumulate either on it or on the skates. It's easy to simply lift the ball and give everything a wipe down. There's only two things that I am nitpicky about when it comes to the Expert. First, the ball has a very high profile (exactly half of it is exposed) and while I find it very comfortable to use throughout the day and experience no wrist strain whatsoever, it would have been nice if the 'horizon' or the plane of the base unit was a bit higher and the ball sunk a bit lower (things addressed in the Slimblade). The second thing is that this thing puts itself to sleep, which is admittedly a good thing. However, you cannot wake it by rolling the ball or scrolling the wheel; you must click one of the buttons to wake the device from sleep, but the click is actually registered with the OS and is not thrown away. Therefore, unless you're expressly positioning your cursor safely when you go idle, then you need to be careful on what button you press to wake your device. Neither are dealbreakers, but I really find the registration of the wake input to be weird. Overall, I am very happy with both of my purchases, but the Expert won out as my day-to-day solution for work. I would never use the device for gaming (at least competitively), but its customizable configuration from speed to keystrokes with Kensington's lightweight software easily make it a power-user's device. It may be unintuitive at first, and I was always first in line to mock these devices, but I have completely turned around on them. I think wherever I go in my professional life, the Expert will come with me.

Utilisé sous Linux sans problème. Un temps d'adaptation est nécessaire si vous passez d'un trackball à une souris classique. J'ai changé la configuration des boutons (boutons du bas clic gauche et clic droit, le bouton haut gauche simule le "Back" dans un navigateur, le bouton haut droit simule le "Suivant", bouton bas droit + trackball pour scroller). Je l'utilise sans le coussinet cela me permet une liberté de mouvement accrue. Bon produit et belle finition.

Love a trackball as it’s much easier to control.