Trackball quest

[gement]

I've been meaning, for the last 18 months, to purchase a trackball. I've gone to stores three or four times with the intention of getting a trackball. On the most successful of those occasions I found that both Cap Hill's computer store and Best Buy only offer trackballs with a base helpfully molded to conform to your right hand, which really puts a crimp in switching hands to distribute the stress or being lefthanded.

I'm reluctant to just buy something online without a very good recommendation, and I'd really rather just go to a store where I can touch them. Where did all the trackballs go? Were they a three year trend that someone decided just wasn't profitable enough anymore? If you were me, where would you go?

Sitting update: Every day, and I got me a real live official sitting pillow which makes it MUCH easier on my back than the makeshift pillow stacks I was making before. Still not Buddha.

Work update: There are only so many pictures of David Beckham and Paris Hilton you can look at before your hand starts twitching for the spork. Then you get a nice ambiguous word like "Explode" and you want to go back to the Paris Hilton pictures.

Comments

[morinon.livejournal.com]

Try Fry's. They have everything.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Have you looked at the websites of the manufacturers? They might have sinister versions of the models that big chains only carry dexterously.

Yep that's the one

[red-the-squeaky.livejournal.com]

I was going to try to find a pic/link for this exact same mouse. I don't use it myself, but R. swears by his. The scroll ring and 4-button set-up is extra handy.

Re: Yep that's the one

[red-the-squeaky.livejournal.com]

I just discovered R has one of that make promisingly proximate to our giveaway pile. He's in coder (don't-talk-to-me-stupid-human) mode, but when he recovers I'm happy to investigate the prospects for you if you like.

Re: Yep that's the one

[gement.livejournal.com]

Aye! Please!

Results

[red-the-squeaky.livejournal.com]

It's definitely old, but still functional and in the giveaway pile.
1) It's serial not USB
2) It's not optical so the motion is a little rough
3) No nifty scroll ring

If you still want it, it's yours.

Re: Results

[gement.livejournal.com]

Aye! Uh, I've been incommudicado a while, huh? I'll be on the Hill Saturday afternoon...

[dianthus.livejournal.com]

http://amazon.com/gp/search?search-alias=aps&keywords=marble mouse

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Hi. :)

After last night, I felt like looking you up on here. I've added you to my reading list, but reciprocity isn't required.

- Liss