I know I’ve been very lax about science or tech posts of late, but as I’ve picked up a wireless mouse for my work laptop recently for use at home, I thought I would share some impressions of it. This is the Logitech VX Nano mouse. When it comes to mice, I tend to like them fairly simple – not the “buttons all over the place” types (i.e. like gaming mice).
What I like about this mouse is that while it is marketed as a notebook mouse, it is not too small. It is only slightly smaller than a standard mouse. Its shape and size still make for a comfortable mouse for me at least. The shape should also allow for left handed users to be comfortable with it as well I think. Larger hands may find it a tad small – my hands are more medium sized with longer fingers. The USB transceiver is really nice in that it is small enough to plug into the laptop USB port and can leave in there without much worry of breaking it. The portion that sticks out is just a hair under 1/4″, and the mouse itself fits into an included pouch which helps protect in in a bag. It also has an on/off switch underneath to help save battery life when not in use. Again while I don’t do much with the extra buttons, this mouse includes web browsing “forward” and “back” buttons next to the left mouse button. There is also a button behind the scroll wheel that sort of acts as a replacement for Alt-Tab in Windows, giving a menu to select any open window. Of course, these button functions are customizable through the Logitech software. The scroll wheel has both horizontal and standard vertical scrolls. One of the nicest features, for my use at least, is the that the scroll wheel has two vertical scroll modes. One is the standard scroll of 3 or so lines at a time with some tactile feedback. If you click the wheel as a button though, it goes into what I call “free wheelin’ ” mode. This mode freely scrolls many lines. It’s very useful in a long web page, large spreadsheet, or in what I find really handy, while at work I have the ability to scroll through about 20,000-30,000 lines of text in large log files. I find the section I am concentrating on, for instance an error dump section, then one flick brings me to the most recent events at the bottom of the section.
So, if you’re in the market for a nice cordless mouse for your system, check out the VX Nano from Logitech. I like it enough that I now keep it in my bag and use it at work as well as when working from home.
The Science Attic 
6 replies on “Logitech VX Nano Mouse”
The forward/back buttons are, I believe, programmable, in that you can program them to to a lot more than just go forward or back in the browser. The scroll wheel also has “left/right” scrolling functions for extra wide stuff, like graphics. I find these useful in some games, like Jedi Outcast.
Exactly, through the Logitech software, you can select the functions of those buttons. I’ve never tried the mouse in a game (since it is for work – I use my home system for any games I do), but it does have the left/right scroll.
Hi,
I From Brazil, so my english in so good. So I bought this mouse and it´s perfect but I´m annoying about the 2 ways of scroller, i don´t know how to put the free wheelin.
Can you help me???
Many Thanks!!!!!!
Hi Jader – thanks for stopping by! To enable the “free wheelin'” mode, click the wheel “downward” (toward your table surface) as if it is a mouse button. To return to the more “normal” scrolling, do the same thing again. Hope this helps.
Ok, Many thanks for your help.
Any time!