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 ...

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 ...

....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). ...