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The Penclic R3 Wireless Mouse is ergonomic and unlike any mouse you've ever tried before. Heck, it looks like a pencil, of all things, and you hold it quite unlike a traditional mouse or trackball. But does it work?
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tests it out and finds that the Penclic R3 Wireless Mouse is pretty cool, but might be a better experience on a Windows PC system than a MacOS system, as he explains in this review.
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a mouse that's shaped like a pencil meet
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the pen
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click hi Dave Taylor here and this time
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I'm looking at the pen click R3 wireless
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mouse that's this guy and you're looking
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at that and thinking uh it doesn't look
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a whole lot like a mouse and you're
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right it's a different sort of ergonomic
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design and it's really pretty
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interesting so on the bottom there's
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actually Optical sensors so I can do
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this and that gets me my regular Mouse
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functions but I can also use this so
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that I can angle it so that it actually
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has the least pain if you have any
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repetitive stress or RSI or anything
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like that going on then you know a
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regular Mouse with that sort of funny
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hand angle even hurts just for me to do
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this gesture but if you're doing that
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for hours a day that could be pretty
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painful and I've watched people in tears
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really debilitated from that sort of
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stuff so the idea of this is it's like
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holding a pencil so you just hold it and
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you move it around and I can see on my
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screen that I have a cursor moving
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around now it's Mac and PC friendly
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because it works with this little guy
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this is what's called a dongle this just
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a little Gizmo that you plug into your
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USB port which Yes means if you're on a
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USBC connection on one of the very
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latest generation of laptops you'll need
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an adapter I have not heard from them
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whether or not they're going to come out
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with the USBC
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dongle my guess is that probably is
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pretty far down the road with their
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product plan but you never know and this
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also has three buttons so here's a
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closeup but the idea is there's sort of
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a left and right button and then the
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middle is the scroll wheel and here's
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the downside the downside is that the
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left and right buttons on a Macintosh at
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least aren't programmable cuz there's no
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software included now when I've worked
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with things like k inton mice it comes
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with software and you can assign
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different buttons to different functions
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which I really like that's when you
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really get a lot of effort savings and a
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lot of benefit but this guy not so much
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so on a Macintosh at least it's really
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the scroll wheel that you can push in
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and that gives you your primary button
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functionality to the point where if I
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want to pull up a context menu or a sort
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of a left click menu I have to hold down
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the let's see which button I hold down
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uh hold down
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the control button while I'm clicking on
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the left button on the mouse on the pen
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click Mouse and that gets me the context
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menu now again this is something I want
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to be able to program I want to be able
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to tell my Mac if I'm using this
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particular mouse that the left click is
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like a control click the right click
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maybe is a shift click or a click and
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hold and then the scroll wheel click is
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a regular Mouse click on a PC you have
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more flexibility cuz PCS are designed
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for three button Bice so you know it's
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going to be a different experience on
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the PC and I will say this is it is
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pretty interesting what I find
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particularly interesting is that my
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tendency is actually to have it upside
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down so that it's my forefinger that's
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on the scroll wheel but if I do this
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guess what's happening on the screen
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it's operating exactly the opposite to
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how I want it on the mouse so I have to
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actually turn it around and have the
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scroll wheel under at least the way I
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hold it under my second finger so that's
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worth knowing too now this operates on a
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single AAA rechargeable battery when you
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charge it it runs for about a month on
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the bottom as you can see here there's
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an on and off switch and there's also
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actually a sensitivity switch and this
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thing can go from 800 to 600 DPI and if
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you have a mouse and you actually know
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this technology you know that having the
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higher resolution isn't necessarily
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better so I would encourage you to
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experiment with different settings to
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see how it goes and that is the pen
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click ergonomic Wireless R3 Mouse from
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pen click now it's $89.99 at pen
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click. but if you go to amazon.com you
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can pick it up for
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$79.99 so either way if you're having
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issues with your mouse with your
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trackpad with your track ball then this
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is a really interesting design and it's
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really something that might work really
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great for you I just wish they had put a
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little more effort into the Macintosh
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software but again that might be no big
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deal to you so this is Dave Taylor and
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wait before you go if you could click on
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the Subscribe button that would be
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fabulous thank you very much and I will
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catch you in my next
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