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Jun 24, 2024 11:48 PM By tidball31

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Your candid response was surprising in a good way. Thank you for the honest clarification. Too many “review sites” don’t do enough to validate their findings which causes concern of how much is the company in question paying for the ratings. Glad you guys are updating your testing to get results more and more accurate. Do you think you will do a retest of models that have hung around long enough that got evaluated on an older test bench just to “true up” the findings? Every 3-5 years or so perhaps?

Hi tidball31,

Thanks for the feedback! We do our best to retest products we expect users to care about, but since we’re also constantly buying and testing new products, we have to be a bit selective with the products we retest after a test bench update. That said, we have a couple of new trackballs in our review pipeline, so if you’re interested in more up-to-date trackball testing, you should stick around for those!

Mar 10, 2024 04:07 AM By RtingsUser202504

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The GameBall is literally the only trackball available with a polling rate of higher than 125 Hz, and more than three buttons. A 125 Hz polling rate isn’t smooth enough for high refresh rate gaming. I hate mice - always having to pick them up to recenter them - so I own the GameBall. It isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for all but the fastest paced games. Only elite competitive gamers would ever notice the latency. As a niche item, the GameBall is a bit expensive, but when it’s your only option…

I’m holding out for their third model, hoped it would have been released this past spring but looks like PRC got in the way and slowed things down.

Jan 08, 2024 03:44 PM By  Gregory Vodden

Hi there. Thanks for pointing this out to us— this is a mistake. The Kensington SlimBlade Trackball was tested on a much older test bench (TestBench 1.0), while the Gameball Mouse has been updated to a more recent test bench (Test Bench 1.4). What this means is that some of the data isn’t directly comparable, especially in this case, as we revamped our click latency test methodology with Test Bench 1.1 in July of last year. When we originally tested the Gameball Mouse on Test Bench 1.1, we obtained a click latency result of 16ms, which is when this comparison was written. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch that the statement no longer lined up correctly when we updated the Gameball according to our improved methodology, and we recorded a more accurate and much higher latency result. We’ll be updating the text in this comparison to remove the text that’s no longer accurate. Thanks again for taking the time to bring this to our attention. Hopefully, this helps provide some added context. If you have any more questions, comments, or suggestions on how we can make our comparisons clearer, we’d love to hear them.

Your candid response was surprising in a good way. Thank you for the honest clarification. Too many “review sites” don’t do enough to validate their findings which causes concern of how much is the company in question paying for the ratings. Glad you guys are updating your testing to get results more and more accurate. Do you think you will do a retest of models that have hung around long enough that got evaluated on an older test bench just to “true up” the findings? Every 3-5 years or so perhaps?

The GameBall is literally the only trackball available with a polling rate of higher than 125 Hz, and more than three buttons. A 125 Hz polling rate isn’t smooth enough for high refresh rate gaming. I hate mice - always having to pick them up to recenter them - so I own the GameBall. It isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough for all but the fastest paced games. Only elite competitive gamers would ever notice the latency. As a niche item, the GameBall is a bit expensive, but when it’s your only option…

Jan 05, 2024 01:44 AM By tidball31

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The comparison to the Slim Blade is rather confusing… “The GameBall is designed for gaming use, so it has lower click latency,……” looking at the data it really DOES NOT matter what either track ball was DESIGNED for… YOUR DATA has the Slim Blade latency at 20ms and the GameBall in the 30’s….. its like saying the other bike has glitter so its faster. More substance in your comparisons please.

Hi there. Thanks for pointing this out to us— this is a mistake.

The Kensington SlimBlade Trackball was tested on a much older test bench (TestBench 1.0), while the Gameball Mouse has been updated to a more recent test bench (Test Bench 1.4). What this means is that some of the data isn’t directly comparable, especially in this case, as we revamped our click latency test methodology with Test Bench 1.1 in July of last year.

When we originally tested the Gameball Mouse on Test Bench 1.1, we obtained a click latency result of 16ms, which is when this comparison was written. Unfortunately, we didn’t catch that the statement no longer lined up correctly when we updated the Gameball according to our improved methodology, and we recorded a more accurate and much higher latency result.

We’ll be updating the text in this comparison to remove the text that’s no longer accurate. Thanks again for taking the time to bring this to our attention.

Hopefully, this helps provide some added context. If you have any more questions, comments, or suggestions on how we can make our comparisons clearer, we’d love to hear them.

The comparison to the Slim Blade is rather confusing… “The GameBall is designed for gaming use, so it has lower click latency,……”

looking at the data it really DOES NOT matter what either track ball was DESIGNED for… YOUR DATA has the Slim Blade latency at 20ms and the GameBall in the 30’s…..

its like saying the other bike has glitter so its faster. More substance in your comparisons please.