Empfehlenswerter trackball - but now with four mouse buttons ...

An important information right away: all four mouse buttons can be in Mac OS X to use, more on that later. The SlimBlade Trackball is my third of Kensington. These are characterized by a high quality workmanship

The housing feels valent, is stylishly understated. The most important thing, however:. The ball, or the ball pretty hard running very smoothly without hakeln. Kensington has probably revised the guidance of the ball again. I love working with a trackball, if the ball goes so.

The mouse buttons: previous speaker spoke of a slight sponginess. This I can not confirm - both devices are right next to each other for comparison.

Now for the four buttons:

Also I need all four mouse buttons in everyday life. However, once the software is (the driver) of Kensington installed, nothing else will work with the top two buttons. There is no software to recognize and be able to reprogram it. Kensington needed for carrying out the in-house media control.

I was not interested in this media control especially because there are much more sophisticated variants, such as the Apple Remote Control or a combination of Remote Buddy with different controllers.

I tried to activate by means of the software "USB Overdrive" the top two buttons - nil. USB Overdrive also does not recognize this.

The next step consisted in the Kensington software to completely uninstall. An uninstaller is conveniently located at the same. Made restarting, launched USB Overdrive and lo and behold: the top two mouse buttons are detected and can be programmed as desired!

The Kensington software I do not miss, because USB Overdrive can adjust every detail: mouse pointer speed and acceleration, the keys can be often prove affect the scroll function in pace. In addition, the functions for various programs prove differently.

The trackball gets me "only" four stars because Kensington software brings to large limitations. That was the manufacturer used to be better: the old Mouseworks software allowed the extensive programming of all the keys to.

If you install the original SlimBlade software, you lose the top two mouse buttons and so must change important settings like Mauszeigergeschwindigkeit- and acceleration through the Control Panel - but this can not be many options, such as USB Overdrive.