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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I can't say enough good things, February 11, 2001
My daughter (24 months) could not use a regular mouse so I bought her a child size mouse. She still couldn't use it properly so I tried this trackball. Now she has no problems at all! No longer does she call me to click the right thing in her game. She can do it herself without any hesitation. It is perfect for little hands. And if it needs to go on the family computer, you don't have to uninstall the grown up mouse, they can both work on the same computer at the same time.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for little hands-compatible with W2K no problem, November 4, 2002
By A Customer
I know others have had difficulty with running on higher version OS, but I have my daughter's Crayola trackball running on Windows 2000 without any problem at all. The driver is irrelevant, just use the Microsoft driver for a regular 2 button mouse - it's that simple. Beyond that, I love the excellent precision you get with a trackball. My daughter started working on a computer when she was less than a year, and on a standard mouse it's hard to distinguish the buttons. Many of the smaller chid size mouses aren't very well made. Since all the younger child software is based almost solely on constant left mouse button clicking, we had one mouse before this and the left mouse button gave out in a very short amount of time, especially when the child is first learning and clicks too much. I have had this mouse for over a year now, and it's been nothing but great.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
\Not very good for small hands, July 12, 2004
My 2 year old son, for whom I bought this device, can't properly use it. I believe that this problem stems from both the track ball's design for small hands and with his lack of patience.
The design does not allow someone to "accidentally" push the mouse's buttons. So, the user must make a concerted effort to press the button, which takes about the same amount of effort as flushing a toilet. As the distance between the track-ball and the mouse buttons is so great and the required effort so large, my child must lift his hand from the track-ball to press the mouse's buttons. And, in doing so, he generally drags his arm over the button, which moves the pointer.
This might not be a disaster for an adult, but most educational games are mouse, and not keyboard, intensive. These games require that the user click on the letter, number, shape, etc... So, if the pointer moves off of the target, the game doesn't function.
So, in short, for adults, this trackball probably functions as it should. However, for kids, it doesn't meet requirements.
BTW- I think that I paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $80 for this mouse, not the $40 listed in amazon for the Crayola model.
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