**For normal PC use:** The Kensington Orbit Wired is amazing! Its cheap, its super smooth and doesnt get sticky, comfortable, comes with a added wrist rest you can choose to use or not, ambidextrous, and takes no batteries. **If you want to competitively game:** The wireless Orbit with the wired blue ball in it is my favorite setup. The gameball is amazing, but too expensive and is a little uncomfortable. The wireless Orbit is great, but only when you use it with the wired blue ball in it, because the ball it comes with is too sticky for some reason (its weird but its true, both the red and grey balls are more sticky than the wired blue in my experience by quite a big margin). Im currently using the wireless Orbit+blue ball, and I am Diamond 4 dps role queue, and Masters 2 in open queue. Cannot recommend the Orbits enough!
I've been enjoying my Kensington slim blade a lot, but there is one issue that I notice with many of the available trackballs around: They are lacking in cool colorways! Being able to use my trackball ambidextrously has helped a lot with my shoulder pain, but I still can't help wanting trackballs to look as stylish as the lavender Logitech lightspeed mouse lol. You're right when you said that it's a shallow rabbit hole. Great video! It was very well made. Thanks for showing off many of the available options right now!
You could get the ploopy trackball kit which is 3d printed. So you can basically order the pcb and hardware and then get a 3rd party printing service to make the case with a custom filament since the cad files for the case are open source. But the issue is that the ploopy is just really meh compared to a modded elecom huge or a kensington in terms of smoothness. Also doesn't have any bluetooth options. I'm thinking I will work on making my own outer casing for the elecom huge at some point. It basically is the perfect trackball once you get marble scroll and replace the bearings.
What do known brands have to do with it? I have had stuck trackball movements with my Logitech MX Ergo as well or is Logitech also a “lesser known brand” these days?
ive been around trackballs since i was young cause my dad uses them for work, he took some home. i currently use a kensington expert that i found in my garage. its so good, its so much better than a regular mouse.
For thumb trackballs logitech m575 (shown in video) is abosutely best for quality and value. Nothing fancy, but works better than and longer than other thumb trackballs I have used. Has been daily driver since release
Kensington isn’t very good never buy Kensington, the left click buttons goes bad very quickly. I have two Kensington trackballs, one has defective left click button, it worked for few months. The other (Expert trackball) has a sticky ball, the scroll ring is also very unwieldy. The only brand that uses long lasting buttons is Logitech. The thumb track balls are the best
Ugg cleaning again, I remember balled mice, if trackballs mean this all over again, then I'll stick to a regular LED mouse with larger monitors to reduce RSI instead!
Trackball mice actually arent as bad as the ball mice back in the day. The reason why is the old balls would roll along the table/matt and pick up all junk from the surface so they needed cleaned a lot (hair, dust, crumbs, etc). These trackballs stay off the table, so they mainly only get dirty from your fingers. Some may be a lot stickier than others depending on the one you get though, because bearings play a big role in trackball selections. If you are looking into a trackball to try, the Kensington Orbit Wired is amazing for the price (like $30 usd I think) and is the trackball I recommend to everyone! The ball is one of the smoothest ive ever used (and ive had a ton of trackballs), its cheap, and its so comfortable in my opinion.
Trackballs are also generally a lot easier to clean and in my experience, don't need it as often. My Slimblade Pro trackball isn't even held in place in the socket at all, I can simply pick it up and give the three bearings a quick swipe with a fingertip and it's good as new. My Elecom balls are slightly held in place, but I literally just have to poke them from a hole in the bottom of the device to pop the ball out and do the same. The only one I have that's even remotely less convenient is my Kensington Orbit Fusion, which also uses the poke-from-below method to pop the ball out, but the hole is smaller so I have to use a pen instead of my finger. I use a trackball for ~12 hours a day at work, formerly my Elecom Huge for several months and more recently my Slimblade Pro, and I take a few seconds to clean them maybe twice a week.
wow, save your time - all he really says is that different ones are different = soooo helpful.
**For normal PC use:**
The Kensington Orbit Wired is amazing!
Its cheap, its super smooth and doesnt get sticky, comfortable, comes with a added wrist rest you can choose to use or not, ambidextrous, and takes no batteries.
**If you want to competitively game:**
The wireless Orbit with the wired blue ball in it is my favorite setup.
The gameball is amazing, but too expensive and is a little uncomfortable.
The wireless Orbit is great, but only when you use it with the wired blue ball in it, because the ball it comes with is too sticky for some reason (its weird but its true, both the red and grey balls are more sticky than the wired blue in my experience by quite a big margin).
Im currently using the wireless Orbit+blue ball, and I am Diamond 4 dps role queue, and Masters 2 in open queue.
Cannot recommend the Orbits enough!
Love the charts, super helpful!
I've been enjoying my Kensington slim blade a lot, but there is one issue that I notice with many of the available trackballs around: They are lacking in cool colorways! Being able to use my trackball ambidextrously has helped a lot with my shoulder pain, but I still can't help wanting trackballs to look as stylish as the lavender Logitech lightspeed mouse lol. You're right when you said that it's a shallow rabbit hole.
Great video! It was very well made. Thanks for showing off many of the available options right now!
You could get the ploopy trackball kit which is 3d printed. So you can basically order the pcb and hardware and then get a 3rd party printing service to make the case with a custom filament since the cad files for the case are open source. But the issue is that the ploopy is just really meh compared to a modded elecom huge or a kensington in terms of smoothness. Also doesn't have any bluetooth options. I'm thinking I will work on making my own outer casing for the elecom huge at some point. It basically is the perfect trackball once you get marble scroll and replace the bearings.
saw the epic koss, i also love trackball mice
What do known brands have to do with it? I have had stuck trackball movements with my Logitech MX Ergo as well or is Logitech also a “lesser known brand” these days?
ive been around trackballs since i was young cause my dad uses them for work, he took some home. i currently use a kensington expert that i found in my garage. its so good, its so much better than a regular mouse.
For thumb trackballs logitech m575 (shown in video) is abosutely best for quality and value. Nothing fancy, but works better than and longer than other thumb trackballs I have used. Has been daily driver since release
i have never met a trackball that masters scrolling like the g502 infinity wheel does...
I have the g502x with the wireless charging pad but I want to try the kensington slimblade pro to see if I like it
do you have a link? where di u buy ittt
specifically those kensingtons
Kensington isn’t very good never buy Kensington, the left click buttons goes bad very quickly. I have two Kensington trackballs, one has defective left click button, it worked for few months. The other (Expert trackball) has a sticky ball, the scroll ring is also very unwieldy.
The only brand that uses long lasting buttons is Logitech. The thumb track balls are the best
Ugg cleaning again, I remember balled mice, if trackballs mean this all over again, then I'll stick to a regular LED mouse with larger monitors to reduce RSI instead!
Trackball mice actually arent as bad as the ball mice back in the day.
The reason why is the old balls would roll along the table/matt and pick up all junk from the surface so they needed cleaned a lot (hair, dust, crumbs, etc). These trackballs stay off the table, so they mainly only get dirty from your fingers. Some may be a lot stickier than others depending on the one you get though, because bearings play a big role in trackball selections.
If you are looking into a trackball to try, the Kensington Orbit Wired is amazing for the price (like $30 usd I think) and is the trackball I recommend to everyone! The ball is one of the smoothest ive ever used (and ive had a ton of trackballs), its cheap, and its so comfortable in my opinion.
Trackballs are also generally a lot easier to clean and in my experience, don't need it as often. My Slimblade Pro trackball isn't even held in place in the socket at all, I can simply pick it up and give the three bearings a quick swipe with a fingertip and it's good as new. My Elecom balls are slightly held in place, but I literally just have to poke them from a hole in the bottom of the device to pop the ball out and do the same. The only one I have that's even remotely less convenient is my Kensington Orbit Fusion, which also uses the poke-from-below method to pop the ball out, but the hole is smaller so I have to use a pen instead of my finger. I use a trackball for ~12 hours a day at work, formerly my Elecom Huge for several months and more recently my Slimblade Pro, and I take a few seconds to clean them maybe twice a week.