Love the look and feel of the Slimblade but the switches and perhaps the plastic 'area switch' design let it down for me.I have one of the original right hand Ploopy trackballs. I can only assume there must have been a bad batch of Kensington switches and I was unlucky to get two in a row. My basic $10 Logitech mouse has a precise single click on either button and has never failed me (and it's about three years old). Two clicks developed on the left hand mouse button. It lasted four days of regular use before exhibiting exactly the same problem. The replacement duly arrived (same supplier) and was fine out of the box. I lived with the pseudo 'double click' for a few days then decided it was just annoying the hell out of me so I arranged a return/replacement. There was definite excess travel to the switch over what I was used to. The other buttons did not portray this behaviour though the rear two are a bit vague (depends where on the large area of plastic you press). press it down then feel a (click)(click). Every time I went to left click it felt like I had to press twice through the travel of the switch which felt excessive compared to a standard mouse.
My joy lasted 48 hours until the 'left click' switch developed a "gritty" feel.
#Kensington expert mouse problems plus#
Beautiful ergonomics, twisting the ball to scroll was great and felt very natural plus the actual ball feel in the mount was super silky. The first one arrived and I instantly fell in love. I ordered via Amazon but the Slimblade was sold via Amazon from a 3rd party marketplace seller (albeit with top ratings). I don't know if there was a bad production run or whether I was being fobbed off with customer returns via Amazon, but this time last year I became 'trackball curious' and decided that the Slimblade looked just the ticket. Never heard about removing the magnet - I will try that on a spare unit. I would like it to be smoother and to "coast" more, since I use it to scroll and zoom, but I can live with it. I like the weighting of the ball and the fact that I can "throw" the cursor across multiple giant displays, and to me the scroll wheel works fine. I've tried all of the variations on the concept, from Orbit to Slimblade, and I keep going back to the big boy - but it may just be because I'm so used to it. I've been using the Kensingtons for 25+ years, since they were beige and had a mini-din Apple Mouse connector, and I can't imagine going back to the mouse or track pad.
I think it's all the taco grease from my hands, combined with the slight erosion of the synthetic ruby contact points for the ball that causes this to happen for the ball, and just plain old wear and tear that causes the scroll ring to get smoother, but in any case. Worth the hassle.Īs to the "stiffness" of the scroll wheel (and the ball motion as well) - as the months and years go by, the unit will get "seasoned" much like an old cast-iron pan, and the ball motion gets much less scratchy and more smooth, and the scroll ring does as well, but less dramatically. As to the uncomfortable angle of the Expert Mouse - I sawed a freaking hole in my desk to recess the unit with the rear edge lowered by about an inch or so, so that it sits "flat" like the flush-mounted trackball on an SSL Duality console (which actually uses the mechanism from an Expert Mouse).
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