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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 mice
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:10:48 +0200
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> No, not really: you'd just have to roll instead of scroll.
> 
Well, you don't need to _lift_ the device, the way a mouse demands.

> Also, once you're used to it, a trackball is much easier,
> especially for fine positioning: there's less physical
> and psychological intertia involved (one finger vs. one hand).
> 
Yes and no.  Positioning isn't necessarily easier.

> It's big, expensive and dextro-centric but I really like it:
> I'm getting another one for home.
> 
I prefer using my left hand, sadly.

> It has 4 buttons, scroll-lock button, a wheel and scrolling buttons,
> JIC you're short of things for your fingers to do.
> 
You mention that three buttons are under the right-hand thumb.  I
agree with others that chording is practically impossible in such
case.

Why didn't Logitech just stick a third button on their perfectly
adequate product of a few years ago, I wonder?  Its only other flaw
seems to have been a propensity to catch smoke particles which lead to
an extremely ugly, grimy interior.  Nobody smokes in my office, so the
problem would be much smaller.

++L