Re: Whats it for?

[noone@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