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i had a lot of shoulder pain from using mice. a trackball allows me to relax my arm in one position and alleviates the pain from poising the hand over a mouse. i bought the microsoft intellimouse (trackball), which is operated with the index and middle finger. when i got fed up with the trackball getting gunked up, i looked for an optical version. microsoft's optical trackball is operated with the thumb and my thumb is just not as dexterous as my fingers. i finally settled on the logitech cordless trackman optical. it's not as comfortable as the intellimouse and is just a little too large for my hand, but is very reliable.
i had ruled out the kensington because it was ugly (silly me, yeah?), but after reading about it in this thread, i'm going to be checking it out.
for graphics, i use a wacom intuos tablet. previously, i used a wacom graphire tablet. it comes with mouse that have handy for friends to use.
i've also put a lot of thought into my keyboard. i have used several solutions to eliminate the fixed right-hand keypad. first, i bought a lefkey, with the keypad on the left. then i used an acer ergonomic keyboard with a detached keypad. for the past 3 years, i've been using a typematrix.
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i had a lot of shoulder pain from using mice. a trackball allows me to relax my arm in one position and alleviates the pain from poising the hand over a mouse.
i bought the microsoft intellimouse (trackball), which is operated with the index and middle finger. when i got fed up with the trackball getting gunked up, i looked for an optical version. microsoft's optical trackball is operated with the thumb and my thumb is just not as dexterous as my fingers. i finally settled on the logitech cordless trackman optical. it's not as comfortable as the intellimouse and is just a little too large for my hand, but is very reliable.
i had ruled out the kensington because it was ugly (silly me, yeah?), but after reading about it in this thread, i'm going to be checking it out.
for graphics, i use a wacom intuos tablet. previously, i used a wacom graphire tablet. it comes with mouse that have handy for friends to use.
i've also put a lot of thought into my keyboard. i have used several solutions to eliminate the fixed right-hand keypad. first, i bought a lefkey, with the keypad on the left. then i used an acer ergonomic keyboard with a detached keypad. for the past 3 years, i've been using a typematrix.