Quote - I've got a Kensington Orbit Trackball met Scrollring, love it..... but it has one shortcoming, the 3rd mouse button is missing. The solution is to press the left & right button at the same time, but it doesn't really work well, especially not if you have apps where you have to press and hold the 3rd button.

Looked at the Kensington Expert Mouse Optical Trackball, but it's too expensive, I don't see why it has to be priced so high compared to the rest.

For reasons unknown, but probably easily guessed, the Kensington software doesn't work well.  As I am in need of, or will be shortly, replacing at least two of my old Experts, I will probably give the orbit a try.

What they now sell as the Expert, IMO, is junk.  I had one, could not get it to work with Win7 at all.  For that kind of money, you would expect something better, but the opposite i true.  Being a "made in China", I don't expect the same quality as Kensington once had, and there I wasn't wrong.  Junk is junk no matter how they try to make it look pretty.  I'd rather have one that worked.

I assume the scroll ring is cheaper to make than the scroll wheel, but doing so was one big mistake in conveniently using the mouse. 

Kensingtons site lists the Expert at one penny less than a hundred dollars.  For the older Experts I have,(4) I paid closer to a hundred and thirty.  COmparing quality and useability, the price on the new ones should be somewhere around ten dollars and no more.

Doric

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