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Pros & Cons

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Pros

This tb is a little wider than my last one which i like. Another thing to remember is to clean out the dust & lint particles by removing the red trackball, it's fast n easy.

The perimice-717 wireless trackball mouse is a decent trackball mouse. The mouse sits either on a sofa cushion or a sofa arm. Replaced my dead logitech m570 that was discontinued.

The whole surface has a rubberized matte texture to it. The mouse wheel is a little clicky when it scrolls - that's fine too.



Cons

Even trying to use the click-scrolling of the mouse wheel is a challenge. The biggest problem is the scroll wheel. This mouse is not accurate enough to handle the point-to-point selection in close range.

The new perixx track ball has issue's with roller ball. It's not near as smooth as the logitech trackman roller ball. Either doesn't move the cursor at all, or, in the same small amount of movement of the ball, the cursor teleports over a bunch of pix...  Read More

Trackball absolutely stinks. The life of the unit is not. Its totally useless. Got annoyed with it, even after cleaning the trackball several times.

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Quality


Pros comfortable for smaller hands scroll wheel isnt 34mushy34 ability to easily change the dpi to suit the task at hand availa...  Read More


This trackball configuration is comfortable for my hand the buttons are perfectly placed and the speed adjustment in windows al...  Read More


I had this mouse for a year and a half before the housing surrounding one of the ball bearings snapped and the ball bearing kee...  Read More


The tilt even being adjustable just doesnt feel right regardless of what settingangle you use

Price


But the 100 logitech ergo whatever trackball is buttery smooth rolling for the first 3 months


I bought this trackball simply because of the low price

Competitiveness


I wanted to go back to a wired model but i wasnt paying 5 times as more then for wireless bluetooth


This compared to logitechs value trackball the m575 the angle is better in my opinion and doesnt strain my wrist from an awkwar...  Read More


It is as good if not better than the old logitech

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, first, good, few and clean.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 4,389 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 14 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bought this because the much more expensive lithium bat


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One i had bought felt weird under my hand


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A weird vibe made me uncomfortable


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I purchased three different brands mouses


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have to take the ball out and clean once a week


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The tracking ball is way too sensitive hard to move it on to the line spaceplace that you want


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    At first i was actually looking at their more expensive model the 520 however based on the pictures and the video angles provided by the so called reviewers on youtube i settled on the 517


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Because the shape looked better for my hand vs the 520

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