mouse or trackball ??

i use autocad and 3ds max
which one should i use?

mouse or trackball? microsoft or logitech ?

thanks

how about logitech products ? compared to microsoft's ?

which is better ? thumb or index fingered trackball ?

thanks

Index fingers definitely, doesn't matter which brand, and most that swear by the regular style mouse have never used a Trackball Mouse, you don't move the mouse all over a pad, all you move is the ball, index style puts left and right click thumb activated, its excellent in CAD and pure killer in games, especially when you have to turn quickly.

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now iam thingkng about:
-logitech trackman fx
-logitech marble trackman
-logitech cordless trackman
-microsoft trackball explorer

what do you think ?

thanks

I think you should go down to your local PC super store and see what you like the most...

Row like mortals, think like gods.

The most noticable diffrence will be the looks & ergonmics (eg. I've got big hands so I tend to lean towards MS as they're a little bigger than logitech equiv' items), the other thing, slightly alarming with the mice but hardly perceptable with the trackerballs and then only at low speeds, is that the logitech software changes the pointer-to-device relationship which can give a really strange sensation that the pointer isn't moving in the same way as your hand.

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