On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: > "Andrew Wiley" <wiley.andre...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.76.1327644483.25230.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote: >>> "Andrew Wiley" <wiley.andre...@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:mailman.40.1327562674.25230.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >>>> >>>>YES, I'm not the only person alive using a trackball! Thumb-ball, >>>>marble, or one of those giant pool-ball things? >>> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Trackman-Wheel-Optical-Silver/dp/B00005NIMJ >>> >>> (I don't know why the price there is so high, though. They're only around >>> $35-ish in stores.) >> >> It's that high because Logitech has stopped selling them. > > WTF? That blows! Those are the best trackballs in existence! > >> They've been >> replaced by this: >> http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs/devices/wireless-trackball-m570 >> > > Ewww. Bad move on their part. I got one of the wireless ones one time and > returned it the next day. It was terrible. Physically it was the same, but > it was painfully less smooth and less responsive (and inconsistently so) > than every other mouse I've ever used.
I had the same experience with the original wireless Trackman, but they seem to have genuinely fixed the new one. I'm using it now, and I think it's better than my TrackMan Silver.
