Review on Renewed Logitech MX ERGO Advanced Wireless Trackball for Windows PC and Mac by Aneta Banaszek ᠌

Name: Renewed Logitech MX ERGO Advanced Wireless Trackball for Windows PC and Mac
Item: Renewed Logitech MX ERGO Advanced Wireless Trackball for Windows PC and Mac
Rating: 3

December 28, 2022

Not a bad product, but you can find better.

In general, in my situation (I bought it for 3k in amazon at the expense of points and discounts to use while I'm sitting far from the table, I can't reach my laptop and I'm writing a guitar) - ok. More convenient than Apple's old bt-touchpad (the engineers also got it right there, and made 2 tiny legs in the corners clickable, which is why it doesn't work, for example, on the leg).

But if I bought it permanently for 7k, I would go back and write angry letters. Raw product. It is very strange to see this from a company that has been making trackballs for as long as I can remember.

PS About addiction. I have never used trackballs in my life, zero experience with them, for the last 10 years only the touchpad. But the learning curve is very humane, all you have to get used to is diagonal movements, especially right-up and right-down, to be accurate. The rest is easy after half an hour.
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Pros

+ Trackball ergonomics. In general, the idea itself (to rotate the ball with your thumb) turned out to be surprisingly successful. And slope is a theme. I hope I'm not exchanging potential touchpad hand sores for potential arthrosis of the thumb. + Workmanship - plastic, buttons, wheel, that's it. + A separate feature, against which other jambs and minuses look awkward, like how the same team can be so good and so bad at the same time. In general, the surface on which this thing rests on the table is not perfectly flat, but with a bulge in the center. Because of it, the trackball resists movement in the plane of the table, but at the same time it rotates very easily around its axis. But the bulge is microscopic, and the play is not felt. Brilliant, I think.

Cons

- The location of the secondary buttons is somehow . Not at all under my arm, And in other mice and logitech, and the size is all ok. I would make the thumb button on the ledge under the ball, and the index buttons are just larger so that I don’t aim so hard at them. And even better - for the thumb, make two buttons under the ball, and for the index finger - one, this will really be ERGO. - The ball itself has a backlash and not a very smooth ride, I thought it would be tighter and smoother. There is some sticking / friction, when the effort and speed are minimal, and the cursor does not move ––––––, but – – – –, in small jerks, and you just feel it with your thumb, tyk tyk tyk. For these cases, they offer to switch to a low sense (and not customizable), well, this is nonsense. - Old rare usb, which is only needed for charging. Well, kamon, the end of 2022, I have had all usb-c for a long time, should I keep a separate cord for this? – Significantly lags on BT. Well, that is, you turn it on - it seems ok. Then you think, can it be better? You stick it through the dongle, and everything is much smoother. That is, minus the usb hole on your computer. - There was no place in the huge case to make a hole for the dongle. They have been doing it in all mice for 10 years, even in the smallest ones, but here they couldn’t.