On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:03:19PM +0000, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I use the Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It is an optical trackerball and as > such it is very easy to keep clean. The large ball just pushes out and > accumulated fluff etc. can be blown away.
I swear by the standard Trackman Marble and have... 4? of them. It has a smaller ball that just sits under your thumb, so it does gunk up a little easier, but cleaning it out is trivial. Just pop the ball out and remove the little grease-and-dirt cakes from its three support points. > The design is excellent and is > very comfortable to use once you get used to it - you do need to give it > time. I also have a Trackman Marble FX and, although it's a nice design (and I do prefer the larger ball), my hand always cramped up fairly quickly while using it. I didn't give it much time as a result... All the Marbles seem to be designed for someone with smaller hands than mine and that seems to be a much bigger problem with the FX's fin design than it is with the standard version's lower profile. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss