Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball Review

Like many ergonomic products, trackballs are an acquired taste—often, acquired by sheer painful necessity. It can feel strange to switch from using a mouse, which feels like an extension of your arm, to rolling a ball to move your cursor. But if you have wrist or shoulder troubles, trackballs keep your whole arm still. They offer economy of movement—all the work falls to a few fingers that, while they move a lot, never have to stretch. It should come as no surprise that Kensington, a company known for making trackballs, would design what I see as the platonic ideal of the form. The $99.99 Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball is comfortable to navigate, and compact enough to suppress strenuous motions. Plus, it’s cordless, so less desk clutter. A few improvements could be made and power-user features added, but the Expert Mouse earns an Editors' Choice for providing everything you need to adapt to the trackball lifestyle.The Perfect Trackball? Roll With Me Here For an "expert" device, t...

Wrist need a rest? The Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball has everything you need to make the fingers-only trackball experience your own.

Comfortable design, including game-changing scrolling ring; Bluetooth and 2.4GHz wireless; Detachable wrist rest; Lots of customization available via config software

Relies on disposable batteries (may be a pro to some); Noisy click panels

A bit dated

The large ball is nice to use but the motion and the wheen and general ergonomics don't feel as smooth as you would expect

Great trackball

I bought my first Kensington Trackball back in the late 90s and have never looked back. It was great. My hand cramps disappeared after only a few days. Since then these trackballs have got better and better. I've owned about 7 of them over the last 25 years. The new ones last longer and are much easier to clean. You'll have seen a one-star review on here. I'll bet money he just didn't realise he had to take the ball out every couple of weeks and blow out the dust underneath it (where the laser receiver is). It's easy to do, but they don't tell you about it in the instructions. Don't buy the product for the MouseWorks software though. It ...view more

Best pointer device out there.

Far and away the saviour of my wrist and hand. The trackball is firstly super accurate and extremely precise. The wheel set up and 4 buttons have really good service history. I'm trackball 4 and wouldn't change. Working as an architectural draftsman the amount of back and forward scanning and panning is extreme and the trackballs do it ease, day in day out. Sure there will be better gaming devices but once your an adult and need something for work these are the go.