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| mahuti:
My review = I like mine, and don't want the larger size. |
| mahuti:
One piece of advice I have about ANY trackball is to break it in. Install it, then press on it pretty hard and slowly roll it in every direction. Oil the bearings a bit too. There are a number of postings that have some pretty good tips on breaking in a trackball. I spent a few minutes breaking in, then a few days working the thing over... it definitely worked much better after the break in period. It's down to personal taste... there isn't any objective reason that an Ultimarc 2.25" trackball won't work for you. If you want to get into a trackball for cheap, and don't have access to an ultracade company discount, the Ultimarc is a good place to start. You can always sell it and get most of your money back on the Buy/Sell/Trade forums if you find you really don't like it. |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: Ahigh on October 19, 2005, 12:36:30 am ---My generalization is that the angular inertia of the rotation of the ball feeds back to your sense of touch and you can accelerate and decelerate the ball for more precise movement. As the ball becomes too small, movement becomes too jerky. As the ball becomes too big, things just get silly. 3" is the sweet spot in my opinion. Also, small trackballs == crappy is my opinion. This is easy to verify by trying one of the extremes like a 0.5" trackball that is built into a keyboard. Very very crappy. --- End quote --- I don't altogether agree...PC trackballs aren't designed to spin as such, arcade one's are. I must say I have only used a handful of 2 1/4" trackballs, but they played like a dream - one was in a restored Centipede so was probably a Happ style one. I'm actually disappointed with my Happ 3" trackball's spin (it's notchy and makes a strange noise, there's a thread on here somewhere)...I'd considered trying a 2 1/4" one instead... |
| Level42:
Ultimarc |
| Minwah:
--- Quote from: Level42 on October 19, 2005, 07:21:39 am ---but I trust Minwah's judgement and I've no experience with either of these trackballs yet so I can't comment really. --- End quote --- Don't get me wrong Happ's seem to be rated the best. But here's the thread with my trackball problem in for reference...seems a lot of other people have the same problem apparently: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=24473.0 |
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