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Kensington Professional Trackball & Pro Fit Gesture Mouse Review

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Peter Donnell

As a child in my 40's, I spend my day combining my love of music and movies with a life-long passion for gaming, from arcade classics and retro consoles to the latest high-end PC and console games. So it's no wonder I write about tech and test the latest hardware while I enjoy my hobbies!

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