Re: Whats it for?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

I repeat I HATE TRACKBALLS.  They are too touchy to be
useful.  I have an optical Microsoft Intellimouse on my PC and
I love it.  No balls to worry about getting clogged with dirt and
being touchy.  I have yet to see a trackball that you didn't have
to move a lot to get it to move across the screen or was not
too touch so that you could actually point at something and
not have it move slightly when you try to click a button.  I have
tried little laptop ones and great big baseball sized ones and
I haven't seen one yet that I liked.

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<noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message 3B3B36E0.62DCABD8@nowhere.net">news:3B3B36E0.62DCABD8@nowhere.net...
> Mark Wrote:
> "I hate track balls with a passion"
>
> Mark:
> I challenge you to use my trackball for 1 full day.  The trackball I use
> is so comfortable to use and easy to master that I bet you change your
> opinion.  You may still prefer a mouse at the end of the day, but I dare
> say that you will not hate track balls any longer.
>
> For this challenge I am willing to fork out the $7 postage to ship the
> track ball both ways and risk my favorite pointing device to the USPS.
> What do you say?  Drop me a note, remove nospam.
>
> Pointing devices are not created equal.  Take for instance the IIgs
> Mouse.  Ugly, square, the ball fits poorly and is very susceptible to
> cursor shift when trying to maneuver the mouse precisely.  I hate that.
> Very few mice have a ball that seats nicely in the hole with minimum
> 'wobble' for good tracking.  I hate the uneven tracking also because it
> causes you to run out of mouse pad frequently and you have to retrace to
> get to the edge of the screen.  Not to mention my desk clutter, I don't
> have room to use the pad, I am left using the papers and everything else
> as a pad.  Yuch.  What sort of bozo invented this?  What we need are
> touch screens so we can point at what we want.  (Get those sticky notes
> off my screen, how can I point at what I can't see?)
>
> Track balls are also not created equal.  But with the flick of my index
> finger I can zip the cursor from one side of the screen to the other.
> This trackball glides smoothly and doesn't shift at all, the base is
> held firmly in place by the weight of the ball.  I absolutely despised
> track balls until I tried a Version 5 Kensington.  It is a much more
> natural feel for my larger hands.  I rest my hand on the front slope and
> move the ball with two fingertips, click using my thumb or pinkie.  I
> never have to move my hand or lift the mouse and retrace on the pad to
> get to the edge of a screen.
>
> Thankx,
> Ed
> eeastmanNO@SPAMapple2.com