Kensington Professional Trackball & Pro Fit Gesture Mouse Review
Peter Donnell / 9 years ago
A Closer Look – Pro Fit Gesture Mouse
The Pro Fit is hard-wired and comes with a lightweight USB cable for plug-and-play friendly setup. There is some software, but it’s not mandatory for basic operation.
The mouse is quite compact in terms of ergonomics, making it well suited for fingertip and claw grip types, and there’s a slight inward curve to the side panels to ensure you can really get a good hold on it.
There’s a single control switch on the side, as instead of the standard forward/backwards navigation switches, Kensington have equipped it with a gesture button. This button offers up the kind of features you would expect from a touch screen and it’s certainly interesting to use. Holding it down then moving the mouse in the required direction will allow you to zoom, navigate forward/back, show desktop, view tasks, open up a virtual desktop and launch the start menu; who needs a touch screen now!
There’s another tall and slightly curvy panel on the right, helping you get a better grip on the mouse overall and making it easily possible to use a lift-off technique when tracking.
The two mouse buttons have a fairly heavy click response, which I quite like for a day-to-day work mouse as it’s less twitchy and the switches feel like they’re going to be long lasting too. There’s a heavily recessed scroll wheel, which I would like a little higher, but with a soft rubber grip and a well defined tactile bump and click, it easy to control and perfect for browsing the web and office documents.
On the base, there are two small slipmats, which could do with being a bit bigger, but the mouse does glide rather well anyway as it’s super lightweight design doesn’t offer much in the way of unwanted traction.
The sensor performance on the Pro Fit is locked down to 1800, it’s not meant to be a high-performance gaming mouse or anything like that, it’s a productivity mouse. For use on screens up to 1440p, I find this is more than enough for day to day tasks and the speed scaled using Windows pointer speed nicely enough. Those with higher resolution displays or multi-monitor setups would likely want a more configurable sensor setup.
