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When people start searching for upgrade or replacement of favorite trackball, it's often desirable to see potential candidate together with old one, just to get very basic impression of how similar (or different) it is. I'm starting this tread with Elecom Deft Pro M-DPT1MR versus Logitech Cordless O...

Interesting works focused on analyzing how GUI performance is affected by acceleration changes. Among other things, the differences between Windows and MacOS implementations are detailed. === User-defined transfer functions to improve pointing performance in graphical user interfaces S.M. Hasanul Ba...

Ball size: 2 1/4" (57.25mm) Interface: ADB P/N: 62352 https://trackballs.eu/media/Kensington/62352/IMG_1946_m.jpg Slightly updated version of very first trackball marketed by Kensington - TurboMouse #62350 (rebadged Assimilation Process AP07045 Mac Turbo Touch ). Physically identical, but with updat...

For gliding points, as well as for some ball bearings, different kinds of ceramic (and similar) materials are used: Zirconium Oxide (ZrO 2 ), Silicon Nitride (Si 3 N 4 ), Silicon Carbide (SiC), Synthetic Ruby (Al 2 O 3 :Cr), Aluminium Oxide (Al 2 O 3 ) etc. Some in-depth information about particular...

Some tracball-oriented communities that active today. Forums : https://deskthority.net/viewforum.php?f=3 Resource is mostly devoted to the mechanical keyboards, but some useful infrmation about pointing devices is available. https://old.reddit.com/r/Trackballs/ Probably, most populated place today, ...

Ball size: 2 1/4" (57.28mm) Interface: RS-232 FCC ID: FUU4TGMAP1 https://trackballs.eu/media/MicroSpeed/FastTRAP/IMG_1640_m.jpg Introduced in 1987, it seems to be the first pointing device in history equipped with wheel - long before it was reinvented again for mice. MicroSpeed called it "trackwheel...

Ball size: 1 1/2" (38.06mm) Interface: RS-232 https://trackballs.eu/media/Highscreen/DSC05854_m.jpg Rare trackball, made by Vobis for its Highscreen PC line and designed by Luigi Colani. Unusual arrangement of controls: it's not purely "finger trackball", as the ball is effectively held between inde...

Ball size: 1 3/4" (44.45mm) Interface: RS-232 FCC ID: FGK5AD TRACKBALL https://trackballs.eu/media/Fulcrum/IMG_0782_m.jpg Quite interesting device, developed in 1986. At those times, standard trackballs & mice were equipped with two or three buttons - but Trackball Plus has six! Capability to emulat...

During initial checking, repair and modding tasks, it's handy to use special software. There are plenty of tools available for that purpose. My favorite is Microsoft Mouse Hardware Diagnostic Tool (MouseInfo), included with Microsoft IntelliPoint v8.20 software package. It's capable to check basic 5...

Ball size: 1 37/64" (40.0mm) Interface: USB+PS/2 Trade Name: Professional Optical Trackball Model No.: PERIPRO-301 USB ID: VID_04F3&PID_0210 Product Name: PS/2+USB Mouse https://trackballs.eu/media/Perixx/301/DSC05528_m.jpg Extremely rare device, with almost no information or reviews available. Seem...