Logitech Trackman Marble Wheel

I have had my computer since November and just bought a cheap mouse to begin with. What a mistake, after a few months it started sticking and was really hard to use on the mousemat, even after cleaning. My husband bought me a new mouse from Comet called the Logitech Marble mouse. It was £30, a touch expensive, but it has been well worth the money. This mouse has a big roller ball which you swivel round with your finger/thumb. You don't need to move the mouse itself at all. It is very difficult to get used to at first, but once you have mastered it, there is no looking back. I find it much easier to access things now as the pointer seems to ...  Read the complete review

The concept of this mouse is great - unlike a regular mouse it actually fits snugly to your hand and means you don't need to be constantly moving your mouse around. If you have little space on your work-surface then buy one just to avoid having a mousepad! The mouse works by a big 'marble' suspended in the plastic case. It needs operating by your thumb, and does take a bit of getting used to once you use it for the first time! If you're a newbie to computers you certainly shouldn't start with this mouse - it requires a bit of a dexterity to actually use it successfully and with control! Once you have mastered it though, you'll find that ...  Read the complete review

....but once you get used to it you wonder how you coped without it! This mouse is seriously cool. I recieved it as a birthday present last month, and I'm chuffed to bits with it. It differs from an ordinary mouse, in that it stays stationary. There is a large trackerball which you control with your thumb. It's a great shape, with the usual 3 buttons at the top, with an extra feature which is just wonderful for webbrowsing. It has a wheel on the centre button which enables you to scroll down the screen on your browser. (It's this feature I miss the most when I go back to using an ordinary mouse when I'm on another computer). ...  Read the complete review

I recently came across this trackball buried away in a box in our IT department. It was obviously a peripheral that had been purchased with good intentions to begin with and then later discarded! In a quiet moment in the office I decided to connect it up and see if I preferred the way it worked to a normal mouse. For those of you who are unfamiliar with how a trackball works, they are a little bit different to the way you use a mouse. Instead of moving the whole unit to move the cursor, you just move the ball itself. Anyway I will put this into more detail later in the review. After some enquiries I found out that this trackball had been ...  Read the complete review

I love my Logitech Marble Wheel. This is a fantastic device. Sure, as the other reviewers have pointed out it takes a little time to become accustomed to it. However, once you are used to the feel of the mouse in your hand, your life on the computer becomes so much better. No more painful handcramps, no more "running out of room" to move the mouse, and faster scrolling. With just one flick of your finger you can scroll the mouse to any point on the page versus the standard mouse where you have to move your entire hand and part of your arm. I can't imagine a simpler interface other then voice control. The left and right buttons work ...  Read the complete review