Once I carefully put my hand on the beautiful device, I immediately feel at home. And since it doesn’t move while you use it (like all trackballs) it doesn’t really matter unless you are running very low on desk space. The device is quite large, even slightly bigger than the Expert, but for my large hands it is very comfortable. (The SlimBlade does have a very ingenious scroll function though, but we’ll come to that later). See the pictures below (thanks to Arnaud Vernay for the tip and photos):Īnd that beautiful chrome ring, why doesn’t it do anything? It should have been a scrollring! Now it is just decoration. You can try to find this Slimblade keyboard set on eBay. The wireless keyboard is part of the Kensington SlimBlade Media Notebook Set and comes with a Numpad and USB dongle. There are magnets behind the rubber and the flap will keep the mouse in place. Update: the little flap on the side has a purpose! Thanks to a comment below, I now know that this flap can be used to connect the mouse to a Kensington keyboard. Why is there a little flap with the Kensington logo sticking out from the side? Quite unnecessary and it takes away from the perfect symmetry of the design. At the end of this fancy cable, there is an originally shaped, cream-colored USB plug.Īfter admiring this beautifully shaped trackball for a while, I started thinking slightly more rationally. I would almost compare it to a round shoelace for a dress shoe. The cable looks and feels, and basically is, a black string, like a mini rope or chord. Looking from the top, you can see four large buttons that are part of the body, covering almost the whole surface.Įven the USB cable isn’t just a regular cable. The sides of the trackball are filled with a cream-colored rubber, with a little rubber ‘flap’ that sticks out on the left side with the Kensington logo engraved in it. The chrome ring can be seen in the image below of my trackball, but on the official Kensington images, it looks just black or grey. The SlimBlade trackball is made of high-quality materials, with a ‘metallic’ dark grey glossy plastic (the same material is even used at the bottom as well), and a shiny ‘chrome’ ring around the huge, ‘metallic’ dark red ball. The SlimBlade is the most beautiful trackball on the market, period. I was looking forward to reviewing the Kensington SlimBlade trackball, and once it arrived and I opened the solid carton box, I wasn’t disappointed. Kensington Pro Fit Ergo Vertical Wireless Trackball.Kensington Orbit Fusion Wireless Trackball.
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