Kensington STUDIOMOUSE OPTICAL MOUSE FOR MAC DESIGNED FOR ADOBE & GRAPHICS (Kensington-64322)

Reviewed by: sekhem13

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Weaknesses: Useless for graphics work

Overall Evaluation: I purchased the product because the company claims it's compatable with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. However, the touchpad that has been substituted for a scroll wheel makes the product useless. I have to pound on the touchpad and dig my finger into it with my body weight behind it just to get the mouse to scroll. I think Kensington had a gorilla in mind when the designed the product. Once it begins to scroll, there's no controled motion- the document just leaps up and down- never mind the fine line or pixel level movement that is needed for high resolution graphics work. I had to use the scroll bar in the document just to move where I wanted to go. Scrolling through a text document is no better. It will irratically leap to the top or bottom or somewhere else in the document when the intent is to simply scroll to the next paragraph. I frankly would have gotten more use from a $5 mouse. I returned the product to the store after one day (even with the 15% restocking fee). I re-purchased a MacAlly mouse -they don't work well with Illustrator and tend to need to be replaced frequently but I'm quite happy with it- and quite unhappy about loosing a day of productivity to a crapy overpriced product. If you're into programing buttons just because you like gadgets, I suppose you might have some fun with this mouse. You can access menus with a click and the like, but the documentation is so incomplete you will have to figure out how to do it by trial and error.