>> In article lqOdnT_nTsH5wszUnZ2dnUVZ_q_in...@giganews.com, Tim Lance at
>> see....@bottom.com wrote on 12/23/08 5:00 PM:

>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:30:48 -0600, Jolly Roger wrote
>>> (in article <jollyroger-BEE5EB.14304823122...@news.individual.net>):

>>>> In article <fmoore-6D2A41.14191523122...@feeder.motzarella.org>,
>>>> Fred Moore <fmo...@gcfn.org> wrote:

>>>>> In article <jollyroger-BD6D46.16340520122...@news.individual.net>,
>>>>> Jolly Roger <jollyro...@pobox.com> wrote:

>>>>>> In article <5aydnRVc-vJE7dDUnZ2dnUVZ_hKdn...@giganews.com>,
>>>>>> Tim Lance <see....@bottom.com> wrote:

>>>>>>> Any one use one of these?

>>>>>>> JR. Might be the one. Trackball works just as a 360-degree scroller in
>>>>>>> "mouse
>>>>>>> mode" and then can be switched to "trackball mode" for full-blown
>>>>>>> trackball
>>>>>>> functionality (i.e. trackball controls pointer).

>>>>>>> http://us.kensington.com/html/13880.html

>>>>>> My experience so far with Bluetooth mouses is that they ten to be just a
>>>>>> bit laggy, which makes me feel as if I don't have complete control over
>>>>>> the cursor. I wonder if they offer it in a wired version.

>>>>> About 6-9 months ago I investigated this and other Kensington Bluetooth
>>>>> mice at the Apple mini-store inside a Microcenter near me. There were
>>>>> none in use in the Apple section even though the store sold them. I
>>>>> asked the Apple clerk. He said he had removed all the Kensington
>>>>> wireless mice because of significant and continuing driver issues which
>>>>> messed up the system. Perhaps Kensington has fixed this. Perhaps not.

>>>> And that brings to mind this question:

>>>> How does this Kensington Slingblade Trackball mouse operate *without*
>>>> the Kensington drivers installed? I would hope that the right button and
>>>> track ball would work like they do in the Mighty Mouse. Can anyone
>>>> corroborate this?

>>> Things I read elsewhere said they did. I just went ahead and got another MM
>>> for myself for Christmas. That and an Airport Extreme. Took almost every
>>> loose coin I had in the fish bowl I use for a piggy bank.

>>> I couldn't go from 4 buttons to two (Slingblade), or use a tilting scroll
>>> wheel, or some other compromise.

>> But why would you get another MM, given its apparent intrinsic design
>> deficiencies?

> It served me better than any other. It has more of the features I want than
> any other.

> Granted: design could be SO much better/user friendly. But I also made it
> worse by not keeping it cleaner to begin with and by being kinda rough in my
> taking apart (3 times). It had lasted me many years. So I resolve to clean
> more often and when I do need to take it apart I will be more careful.