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Charles Moore - 2007.04.16 -Tip Jar
About a year and a half ago Ireviewed MacMice's The Ball Bluetooth cordless trackball, whichI found quite comfortable, although I questioned the basic conceptof using cordless connectivity, with its added complexity, oftenmediocre accuracy and responsiveness, and necessity for batteriesat desktop workstations - and you would hardly take a freestandingtrackball on the road to use with a laptop.
Logitech's TrackMan Wheel is another approach to trackballinput. It comes in both corded and cordless versions. Our test unitis the cordless version, but (unlike The Ball) it's not a Bluetoothdevice. Rather, it uses Logitech's 'digital radio technology',which lets you work within a 6' radius of the receiver with no lineof sight issues.
More about the relative merits of these two wireless interfacesin a moment.
Before I could use it, the Logitech driver and configurationsoftware had to be installed, and the computer rebooted.
You can use the Logitech Control Center preference panel tocustom configure mouse button and scroll wheel commands.
The other major distinction between The Ball and the TrackManWheel is that while you actuate the former's tracking ball withyour index and/or big fingers, the TrackMan Wheel's ball isactuated with the thumb. The thumb, with its wide range of motion,is arguably the logical digit to use with trackballs, andthumb-actuation makes it easy to traverse the entire width of my17' PowerBook's widescreen display with one quick motion. Indeed, Ifound thumb trackball navigation so slick, quick, and articulatethat I soon preferred it to certain keyboard shortcuts I usefrequently, such as Command > Delete for banishing highlightedfiles to the Trash.
On theother hand, while The Ball is completely ambidextrous, the TrackManWheel is radically right-hand oriented, which may be an issue forlefties.
Aside from the unorthodox configuration of its trackball, theTrackMan Wheel offers the usual standard trackball/mouse features:left and right buttons and a 'clickable' scroll wheel that alsoserves as a third button. It uses optical tracking technology thatworks whether the trackball is clean or not, although it's goodpractice to pop the ball out and wash it whenever it begins to getgrubby just as a matter of form.
Hands On
I have to say that the smoothness and effortlessness of thetrackball rotation isn't quite up the the standard of The Ball,whose tracking ball rests on three tiny stainless steel ballbearings rather than three nylon ones, but it's not a bigissue.
One disadvantage of non-Bluetooth cordless trackball isthat you are obliged to use up a precious USB port to connect thereceiver. Bluetooth is another matter, since it is built into thecomputer and operating system, and it requires no external receiverdongle unless your Mac predates Apple's adoption of Bluetooth. Onthe plus side, the Logitech wireless technology, unlike Bluetooth,has no latency on wake-up and does not need to be 'paired' - bothattributes appreciated by me.
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Corded makes more sense to me, especially with trackballs. Sincethe trackball housing remains stationery in normal use, having adirect cord connection doesn't inhibit its desktop functionality inthe slightest, and the receiver module is just something else tolug around and possibly get lost for portable users.
My recommendation for the TrackMan Wheel would be to go with theUS$20 less expensive corded version and dispense with the need toreplace a single AA battery every 3-4 months, (Logitech's 'SmartPower Management' helps extend battery life). A battery indicatorwarns you when the battery is low.
Supports Mac OS 8.6
One aspect that should be of particular interest to some Low EndMac readers is that the Logitech Cordless TrackMan Wheel supportsMacs back to OS 8.6, while Bluetooth support didn't come alonguntil well into the OS X era, so the TrackMan is a wirelesssolution for older machines with no Bluetooth, if that's somethingthat would appeal.
In termsof form factor, the TrackMan Wheel is about the size of a largemouse, with the buttons and scroll wheel where you would expectthem to be. The trackball itself is embedded in the left-hand sideof the housing, where it is manipulated by the thumb of the user'sright hand.
The TrackMan Wheel is trapezoidally molded to accommodate theshape of the human hand. Personally, I would have preferred thepalm rest to be somewhat more vertical in orientation rather thanthe relatively flat angle it is, facilitating more neutralpronation of the hand and forearm - the AerO2bic mouse (formerly Quill Mouse) being a good example of whatI'm getting at.
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The TrackMan Wheel's styling is typically Logitech, with a mattesilver gray main housing accented with darker gray bottom panel anda marbled dark red trackball, which seems to be a popular color fortrackballs because MacMice's The Ball uses it as well.
The scroll wheel is dark grey and is morestiffly detented than is to my liking (my preference is for scrollwheels with an effortless action and no detents at all, as on TheBall and the MacMice mice). The click buttons fall naturally underthe index and middle fingers and have a nice, light, positiveaction.
Using the TrackMan Wheel's thumb-actuated ball configurationquickly becomes intuitive, and the thumb is in most applicationsbetter suited to manipulating the ball than fingers would be. Oneexception, perhaps, would be ultra-precise movements required ingraphics editing, but IMHO a mouse is better for that sort of workanyway.
Cursor Speed
I'minclined to like fast cursor response, and to that end, use thecool little MouseZoomutility set at 'Extremely Fast' or about 4.48x (Apple's fastestspeed configurable with the OS X Preference panel is a poky1.7x). MouseZoom can actually take you up to a factor of 10x, whichis, as they put it, 'crazy fast', but I expect a lot of users wouldfind my setting of less than half that plenty nervous.
With the TrackMan Wheel, I found that dropping thetracking speed back into the Apple supported range - even thelower-end of it (say .50) - was preferable, and a thumb-sweep ofthe trackball would still traverse the Desktop quickly andefficiently.
My firstpriority in choosing a pointing device for production work is ofnecessity imposed on me by physical limitations - fibromyalgia and chronic peripheralneuritis. For me, keeping one's forearm and wrist stationarywhile using a trackball - whether thumb or finger activated -causes more fatigue than having them mobile, especially with theQuill/AirO2bic Mouse, where motionis mainly initiated from the elbow rather than the wrist.
On the other hand, someone with carpal tunnel syndrome or other species of repetitive straininjury (RSI) may do better with the trackball.
Matching the Tool to the Job
I think that the suitability of trackballs as productivityenhancers depends to a considerable degree on what sort of work youdo with them. I find the trackball is great for general Finder andmenu navigation, especially in the Finder, where its speed andquick maneuverability are a delight.
As previously noted, for things like image editing, where youneed very tight and precise incremental cursor control, I have tosay that the thumb-actuated trackball is not ideally suited, andthat, at least for me, a finger-activated trackball or trackpadworks better - and a conventional (wrist-articulated) mouse worksbest of all.
As with most tool choices - whether with computers, woodworking,or auto mechanics - the best tool to use depends on the demands andconditions of the job at hand and what you're most comfortablewith.
System Requirements (for Logitech Control Center)
- Mac OS X version 10.1.2 or higher.
- Macintosh computer with built-in USB port.
- Any PCI PowerMac using a USB adapter card.
The installer will check for the OS version and will not installthe Logitech Control Center if your Macintosh is not running asupported version of Mac OS X.
The Cordless TrackMan Wheel is covered by a five year warrantyand retails for US$49.95.
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