The best trackball ever made has just gotten better. The new Expert Mouse employs Kensington's Diamond Eye optical technology for smooth, precise cursor movement. Surrounding the ball, a brand new implementation of Kensington's award winning Scroll Ring puts scrolling right at your fingertips.
More comfortable than ever, the Expert Mouse even comes with a new, soft, detachable wrist rest that cradles your hand. You get all of these great new features along with the same, large ball, exceptional control, and ease-of-use that has set the industry standard for more than 15 years. An attached 6-foot cord provides plenty of slack for comfortable positioning within your workspace.
Average Customer Rating:
3.8 out of 5
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5 of 6 (83%) customers would recommend this product to a friend.
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$ 79.95
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Customer Reviews for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
45
Save Your Arm from Pain
Date: September 18, 2009
Written By:
OldProJackofAllFrom: Orange County, CA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: build quality, compatibility, features, performs well
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball Solid product great company and saves me from so much daily pain
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Review 2 for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Top 500 Contributor
Overall Rating:
25
Performance:
25
Ease of Use:
25
Not for Vista
Date: April 3, 2009
Written By:
OldHandFrom: Boston, MA
Owned this Product for:
0-3 Months
Level of Expertise:
Expert
Pros: easy to use Cons: expensive, software
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Not for Vista
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball Unique large ball 4 button trackball was brilliant on XP machines with programmable MouseWorks software. No such luck on Vista; MouseWorks not compatible and workarounds complex and unsatisfactory. "Built in" functions of Vista are rudimentary, lacking programmability or even the ability to set basic cursor functions that survive a reboot. Hopefully version 2.0 of the SlimBlade Trackball driver will allow full functionality of this replacement technology.
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Review 3 for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Top 10 Contributor
Overall Rating:
55
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Great product
Date: January 29, 2009
Written By:
AQ70From: PA
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball This is the standard for our trackball users. They love the size of the trackball, and it's a great product! I am replacing one that was purchased 10 years ago!
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Review 4 for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Top 500 Contributor
Overall Rating:
35
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
55
Almost as good as they used to be
Date: December 2, 2008
Written By:
ramatsuFrom: Bellingham, WA
Pros: same timeless trackball quality, lots of configurable buttons, kensington's traditional quality Cons: scroll wheel feels cheap, no wireless model anymore, scroll wheel is a hit on traditional quality
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball We've used Kensington ExpertMouse trackballs for nearly 20 years. The large ball, handy button shortcuts, and longevity have all been big plusses. The trackball beats a mouse for many of us based on personal preference, and features such as occupying limited desk space compared to the room a mouse needs to operate well.
For some reason, Kensington has replaced the small but well-built scroll wheel from previous models with a scroll ring that surrounds the ball. This would actually be a nice improvement, as the larger ring could have better sensitivity than the sometimes touchy wheel, just by virtue of being larger.
But the design implementation isn't smooth - the wheel feels light and cheap, and audibly scrapes against the plastic housing as you turn it. It sort of catches and drags with stutteringly uneven friction, which you would expect from a simple plastic ring-on-plastic housing connection. Yuck.
We are using the one we ordered (to replace one that was about a decade old), and hopefully the poor ring design/construction won't put too many people off buying these, because the ExpertMouse is irreplaceable for convenience moving a cursor around on screen. But i really, really, hope that Kensington gets back on their build quality game and redesigns this wheel component to be as smooth and pleasant to use as the trackball itself. The two components just don't feel like they belong on the same device together.
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Review 5 for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Top 250 Contributor
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
55
Ease of Use:
55
Kensington Quilty
Date: November 26, 2008
Written By:
SlugBugFrom: Sacramento, CA
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball A nice solid controller, I ordered these for our CAD users. They like them and the Kensington lasts a long time.
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Review 6 for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball
Overall Rating:
45
Performance:
45
Ease of Use:
45
Best Trackball out there.
Date: July 21, 2008
Written By:
VinnyFrom: Concord, CA
Reviews & Ratings for Expert Mouse Optical Trackball Can't beat a Kensington trackball. The new wrist and hand support is great, and the scrolling around the trackball is much better than the old one.
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