Microsoft Trackball Explorer Review

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(More customer reviews)Sleek, silver and glowing - I have this space-age thing on my desk that delights me. It's improved the position of my hand so that my CTS has ebbed, though I still need a wrist rest and frequent breaks. All the buttons, including the wheel button, are programmable, bringing the total of moving gizmos to 5 buttons a trackball and a wheel. This alone is reason to fiddle endlessly with it, trying to come up with the best combination of programming to suit the natural play of your hand. If anything, there are too many possible combinations of function, and you may spend a week or more playing with this puppy before you find a workable group of settings.
The functions are smooth, and reasonably reliable, depending on the position your hand takes. I find the left-hand buttons difficult to hit correctly with my thumb, thanks to some nerve damage so I reprogrammed them until I found a way that was comfortable for me to work. I strongly suggest you do the same.
If you're running Win XP, you'll have to d/l the newest Intellipoint drivers, but that's not a big deal. Installation is a snap with Plug 'n' Play.
I never thought I'd find anything that pleased me as much as my old Logitech trackball, but I have to say that I think this one might do it. Time will tell. But right from the start, I found it worth the investment.

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Unlike the mechanical-trackball "mice of yore" that skip, stick, and need to be cleaned, the Microsoft D68-00007 TrackBall Explorer introduces an entirely new trackball featuring optical sensor technology. Reading through dirt, dust, and fingerprints, the optical sensor tracks the movement of the ball 1,500 times per second, giving you smooth, precise control. The Trackball Explorer comes with two additional buttons located on the side of the device--for a total of five buttons--for moving forward and back quickly in your browser, or you can program them. It also features a wheel for efficient scrolling and zooming and is ergonomically designed to support the natural position of your hand as you use your index finger to control the trackball.

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Creative Labs 70GH011000000 Sound Blaster World of Warcraft USB Headset Review

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(More customer reviews)Received this product yesterday. After the initial 8 hour charge I was anxious to test it out. Comfort and sound quality are awesome. Installation was very easy if you follow the Quick-Start guide. The THX options are amazing for versatility. Range on the 2.4gHz wireless is also very delectable. I was very impressed until I went to talk to my guild mates over Ventrilo...
Every single person said I sounded very muffled / tin-e / static-e. The microphone also picks up almost every sound in the room. It is very annoying. Noise canceling microphone??? NO. More like noise amplifying microphone of terrible quality. I plugged in my old $15 headset from WalMart and my voice was back to crystal clarity to everyone in Ventrilo.
I spent about two hours of my own time alternating sound options inside Windows, Ventrilo, and the custom sound board to get my voice sounding somewhat normal over Ventrilo to no avail. I posted this issue on the official Sound Blaster forums. I am also going to create a support request. If this issue isn't fixed or on the way to being fixed I'm going to get a refund and by a different set.

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Experience the sounds of Azeroth and beyond like never before with the Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Headset. Designed specifically for World of Warcraft gamers, the headset features cutting-edge audio technology and THX Tru Studio PC. Get an amazing level of realism through unrivalled headphone surround and gaming sound enhancement technologies. Communicate with your party or raid clearly. The Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Headset features a professional grade microphone, ensuring everyone can hear your shouts in all their resonant glory. Declare your allegiance with interchangeable headset lenses bearing the masks of your chosen faction and 16 million programmable color illumination options. Package contents include headset with detachable microphone and built-in volume and mic mute buttons on ear cup, USB to mini-USB plug cable, quick start booklet, two sets of headset lenses one for Horde and one for Alliance, online software installation with user guide.

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IBM 31P9490 Keyboard for Thinkpad (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought it to extend my thinkpad keyboard experience, which was wonderful, to my new Toshiba TabletPC. It has about the same looking and layout as my old thinkpad laptop, which is what I expected.
However, the build quality is poor, compared to the one mounted on the thinkpad laptop and to the mac at my place. The functions keys on the top are shaky. I got a chance to detach some keypads from both the laptop and this keyboard. The plastic components suspending/mouning the keypads on this keyboard are poorly made, tend to be very soft.
These top-row keys are dull as well, not picking up every stroke. Especially bad is the "delete" key, which works only if I hit it with extra attention. I found this to be very distracting.
Also, motion components beneath the keypads seem not well lubricated, squeaking in quiet nights.
For a price around $90 and such a quality, I will hesitate to recommend it to anyone, except that you cannot live without a thinkpad keyboard.

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The IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav is compact and lightweight (only 22-mm thick) and includes its own carrying case. The external keyboard enables features such as ThinkPad speaker volume external monitor control brightness system sleep and suspend (on supported ThinkPad systems). The IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav also features the Business Black color on a unique industrial design.Primary InformationInput Device Type:KeyboardDevice Form Factor:InternalConnectivity Technology:CableInterface Type:USBInput Device / Keys Qty:87 KeysKey / Function Button:SleepPC Compatibility:PCDimensions&MiscellaneousColor:BlackInput DeviceManipulator:UltraNav; TrackPointSystem RequirementsSystem Requirements / OS Required:Microsoft Windows 2000 / XPService&SupportService & Support Type:1 year warrantyUNSPSC CodeUNSPSC Code:43211706Product IDUPC:087944860983Manufacturer Part:31P9490

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