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Kensington trackballworks windows 7 professional#

The bottom left button is the left-click, the bottom right button is usually best for right-click. The buttons are very large and cover almost the complete top of the body around the ball. The Kensington SlimBlade has four buttons, which are uniquely integrated in (basically a part of) the body.

Kensington trackballworks windows 7 software#

The software can be found on the Kensington website and can be installed very quickly (TrackballWorks does require a restart of your computer though). The software enables you to customize each button and the scrolling speed. The SlimBlade trackball works immediately when you connect the beautiful and unique USB chord to your computer, but I would recommend installing Kensington’s TrackballWorks and SlimBlade software to really take advantage of all the features of this trackball. (If you own an old Expert, and you buy this SlimBlade to replace it, you can exchange the red ball of the SlimBlade with the dark grey ball of the Expert, to make your SlimBlade look even more unique.) The design of the SlimBlade and Expert is ambidextrous which means both left-handed and right-handed people can use it. The ball of the Expert is exactly the same size as the one on the SlimBlade (it’s large!), and both trackballs have four large buttons around the ball.

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As you might have read in my other reviews, I have used a Kensington Expert most of my professional life and this SlimBlade has very similar setup. 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.

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