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Fellowes 91741 Gel Wrist Rest and Mouse Pad - Graphite/Platinum

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Fellowes 91741 Gel Wrist Rest and Mouse Pad - Graphite/Platinum

(42 customer reviews)

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Features

Provides exceptional support while redistributing pressure points.
Optical-friendly mouse pad for superior tracking control
Non-skid base holds wrist rest firmly in place
Durable covering withstands daily wear and tear

Description

Wrist rest provides exceptional support while redistributing pressure points. Optical-friendly mouse pad for superior tracking control. Durable covering withstands daily wear and tear. Non-skid base holds wrist rest firmly in place.

Product Details

Product Length:	10.13 inches
Product Width:	6.25 inches
Product Height:	1.13 inches
Product Weight:	0.73 pounds
Package Length:	11.0 inches
Package Width:	6.5 inches
Package Height:	1.2 inches
Package Weight:	1.65 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 42 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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14 of 15 found the following review helpful:

Doesn't wear out! Jul 04, 2006 By Robert E. Williams
I bought one of these back around late '94 or early '95, and I'm still using it now in mid-'06 (11 to 12 years - wow!). I thought this model went off the market years ago, but I guess not.

After several years of use, the pad accumulated quite a bit crud. However, the pad really traps the crud, such that if you look at the bottom of my mouse, the feet have absolutely no dirt around them, whereas mice feet tend to scrape up stuff on most pads and certainly on a desk. Since my mouse stays clean and the crud doesn't affect the optical tracking, I've just not had enough incentive to clean it and so I haven't.

Aside from the dirt, the pad itself shows very little wear. This really surprises me given how heavy a user I am. Also, the gel pad shows virtually no wear. There are only two slight negatives that I can think of:

1) When I purchased the pad, it had a sort of oily film on the underside of the gel pad, like a lubricant. Not sure what it was for--perhaps a conditioning agent for the rubber--but it's still there after all these years. You can actually turn the gel pad over and draw in the oil. However, I've never tried to clean it, and in fact have always kept the pad in its place except for pulling it on rare occasion to see if the oil is still there. (Not sure where I expect it to go, but heh...) In use, you would never know it's there and you never come into contact with it, so even if you leave it, as I did, there's no danger of it getting on your cloths or anything.

2) The lycra finish on the gel pad is nice in that it doesn't make your wrist sweaty as a lot of gel pads can. And as I said above, it's very durable. However, you can very easily leave cosmetic scratches in it by, for example, fairly gently scratching a fingernail across the surface. These marks are not permanent, though. As far as I can tell, they're very similar to vacuum marks on carpet, and they can be rubbed out or they will simply disappear with a few hours' use. But if you handle the pad, you may look at it afterward to find it all "scratched" up, which is a bit disconcerting.

In one of the many (living quarters) moves I've made with it, the front part got cracked, but other than a crack being visible, it's not affected usability one iota.

I'd kinda like to replace it just for the sake of getting something new, but I'm having a hard time justifying it. I do think the pad requires a bit more effort to move the mouse compared to good modern pads, and that may become my incentive, but for the moment, at least, I'm sticking to it.

BTW, I'm a professional computer user who spends 10-20 hours per day (sometimes more) working on my computer, and with multiple big monitors, I use the mouse an awful lot. Thus, this pad has gotten *very* heavy use over the years. I've also had very few problems with my rather picky wrist, so it seems to a do a good job ergonomically, as well. (In case you're wondering, I use a Kinesis Contour ergonomic keyboard to handle the other half of general input. It's simply wonderful - I highly recommend it to any heavy computer user.)

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Ol' Trusty Feb 02, 2006 By Kevin L. Drum
I've been using one of these little guys for years. I think someone gave it to me as a present. I recently set up a nice new office, and it definitely sticks out as having been put through the ringer. Still works great, just not as clean as it once was, although I did vinyl dye the white tray silver a couple years back. I guess it's time for a new one, though. Awesome product!

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

YMMV Sep 29, 2006 By vga
Pros (for me):
- gel pad is stiff and offers good wrist support
- entire base is made of solid plastic
- small overall footprint. Fits well on small desks.
- mouse pad is detachable, not glued or anything.

Cons:
- gel pad is a bit too high even for large mice like MS Laser 6K
- mouse pad is a bit small. OK only for high resolution mice (1000+ dpi)
- friction between wrist and gel pad is a bit high. More than on a 3M pad.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Very poor design. Nov 20, 2010 By J. Baker "jbbooks"
This product is just too small. A regular 99 cent mouse pad from Walmart is better than this product. I have to constantly pick up my mouse to manuver my screen. I was so frustrated with the item that I pushed it aside and grabbed a nearby magazine to use as a mouse pad. Believe me that magazine did a 100% better than the Fellowes pad. The wrist pad is great, but if you cannot manuver your computer a nice comfortable wrist rest will not be needed. I wish I could return the item. It's creators did a very poor job of thinking through its design after manufactured. So Welcome to "Made in CHINA." We send our plans to China, they slap something together and return to America. I do not recommend this item to anyone until or if Fellowes looks at the design flaws of their product.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Impress Your Form on the Material! Mar 10, 2007 By Douglas Wingate
If I could rate the gel wrist support separately for its wrist-sparing effect, I'd give it five stars. As for the mouse pad, it probably works quite well with mechanical mouses, and it works well enough with the optical mouses I use at home and at the office. However, the mouse cursor is somewhat unsteady, and although I'm not sure, I tend to attribute the unsteadiness to some optical property of the fabric on the mouse pad that makes it imperfect for use with an optical mouse. I admit the problem may be resolvable by some change in the configuration of the mouses; however, if so, I don't know what it would be.

At any rate, however, if your main interest is comfort or protecting your wrist from injury, then I think the Fellowes 91741 Gray Gel Wrist Rest and Mouse Pad is likely to be quite a satisfactory choice.

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