23 Oct 2012, 14:05
Alright, so it arrived today, and I'm really happy. I think that it's a great device for it's price. It's relatively small, but still big enough, and the missing third mousebutton can easily be replaced by pressing both buttons at the same time (TrackballWorks under Windows, and a X option for Linux).
At first I was a little bit disappointed by how the ball turned. It is not scratchy at all, but I thought the resistance was a bit high. I guess the bearings of the L-Trac are by far superior, but after five minutes of use it gets better with this one too. And the scrollwheel is a great addition. Much more comfortable than having to keep a third mousebutton pushed. The only downside is that the scrollwheel is not notched, and it doesn't appear to be of a really high build quality. But in the end I think this is a trackball I can really recommend to anybody who just wants to try if he likes trackballs at all.
Edit: huh, I just tried gaming with it, and have a strange latency on the buttons. It doesn't respond to fast clicks in games. It reacts to fast clicks on the desktop and in menus, but ingame I have to keep the button pushed for around 300ms for it to react. My Razer Mamba reacts immediately. I tried turning off the Mousebutton Emulation, but that didn't help. I wonder whether it's a driver problem. Maybe I should try uninstalling Trackballworks and use the ordinary USB-HID driver…
Does anyone else know this kind of problem? Vierax, could you confirm whether this is typical for Kensington Orbits?
Edit2: Alright, it was the driver. After uninstalling TrackballWorks and returning to the USB-HID driver, the latency is gone.
I just finished the campaign of Battlefield 3 without any trouble. I don't even think I played worse than with the mouse. But I'm a bad gamer anyway.