Mechanical Keyboards

I have one of these, and it's nice. The quality is good.

However, trackballs just aren't my thing. I've been using this for about a year now, and I still haven't come to love it; I still have either accuracy issues, or if I switch it to higher res mode, it is frustratingly slow. It's only a click to switch between modes, but it's another thing I have to do... I just don't love it. But that's not a problem with the product; I think I just can't love trackballs.

The Gameball has some pros and cons:

• • high quality
• • the ball just lifts out for cleaning; you don't have to unscrew some cover plate, like in other trackballs.
• • it has a lot of buttons, and I really like the touch-sensitive scroll areas in either side of the ball
• • as I mentioned, the ball just lifts out, yet it's solid and doesn't wiggle, and there's enough restraint that it won't fall out if you turned it over. It's quite a remarkable feat of design and engineering
• it has an LED logo, and you can cycle through the colors. If you can turn it off, I haven't found that yet, but the logo doesn't distract me so I haven't looked.
• • it's not very grabby on the desktop, and slides around. This is easily fixable, so it's a minor inconvenience
• • it needs cleaning alarmingly frequently. I think because the sensors are tiny - I mean pin-head tiny

I use it because my desk has a keyboard drawer, and like most of these things, there's not a lot of room for mousing.

The Gameball is a solid, well-built product, and if you're looking for a track ball, I think it's worth the price.