I know this is old news, but don’t buy the Logitech VX Nano if you like middle clicking
“Never buy anything without researching it,” I smugly tell people. “Even the most well-respected brand can’t be trusted to produce consistently great products.” So what did I do today? I trusted a well-respected brand and it gave me the middle finger.
When my trusty Logitech MX500, an excellent wired mouse, died this morning, I grabbed the $70 VX Nano, forgetting something important they don’t tell you on the box: it doesn’t middle click.
Clicking the scroll-wheel merely changes the sensitivity of the scroll-wheel itself — a physical mechanism, meaning there’s no option to reassign it in the Logitech Control Panel. If you want to middle click, you have to reassign another button, such as the uncomfortably-placed rubber nodule under the scroll-wheel.
Why replace a standard and essential feature with a pointless trick? Logitech’s mice used to be great: that MX500 lasted half a decade! Now its own support staff don’t even know basic details of how their products are constructed.
