Oh, hold it. Run that back.
Sector G6. There. Zoom in.
Whoa. There. Freeze that. What is it?
Enhance. Enhance.
Look at his wrist. It's uh
Nobody walks with their arms pronated like that.
It's ergonomics 101, Jim. My god. If we can get an ergonomic
Logitech vertical mouse to him, he might just have a fighting chance before
before what? Well, before he develops a repetitive
strain injury and gets fired,
Logitech's MX series of flagship mice,
including the fullfeatured MXM 2S, travel friendly MX Anywhere 2S, and MX
Erggo for track ball enthusiasts. now
has a new addition to the mischief. That
the mischief? Really? A group of mice is called a mischief? Well, you learn
something every day. Okay. Anyway, it's the MX Vertical, Logitech's first
vertical mouse. Now, the idea behind vertical mice, which have been around
for an eye on 20 years now, is to maximize comfort and avoid carpal tunnel
syndrome and other repetitive strain injuries that can be caused by lying
your hand flat for long periods of time.
This is known as pronation and actually
causes your two forearm bones, the radius and the ulna, to scissor, which
can pinch the tissue inside the forearm, increasing pressure in the carpal
tunnel. It can also inflame tendons. So,
yes, that's right, folks. Going prone sometimes hurts more than it helps. Now,
the MX Verticals design mitigates this by putting your hand in more of a
natural handshake position of 57
degrees, which is higher than the MX Erggo's optional tilt, but still less
than the 90°, which in theory would give you enhanced unccissoring, but then
would also introduce new problems because instead of driving mouse clicks
down towards the desk, they'd be going sideways where there's nothing to push
against. So, you just push your mouse away. I mean, you'd probably end up with an injury from squeezing the mouse
constantly to try to hold it still instead of being able to relax, which is
what the vertical's angle and wide thumb pad do allow for. Okay, so your
armbbones are aligned and all that, but what is this thing like to use?
Honestly, quite a bit weirder than I
thought. And there's definitely a bit of a learning curve before you can point
with the degree of accuracy that you're probably used to because you have to
learn to move your ARM on a totally
different axis. Now, on a normal mouse, most of us execute big movements by
pivoting from the elbow or from the shoulder and then fine movements by
moving the wrist sideways a little bit like this. But while this does offer a
lot of precision, it's actually an unhealthy movement with another fancy
name, ulner deviation. But with the
vertical, you actually do your fine movements like this, which becomes
second nature after a week or two, except for an unexpected problem that
James, who I immediately unloaded this thing to when it arrived, ran into,
which was a frustrating increase in what we're calling fake clicks. where you go
to click on something and nothing happens
causing you to have to click again. So, it took me a couple of goes to figure
out why it wasn't registering sometimes. And it turns out that whether it's some
combination of the vertical position or maybe the difference in fine motor
control between moving your hand like this versus like this. But basically,
what's going on is that it's really easy to inadvertently click before you've
actually stopped moving the mouse. And if you look closely, you can actually
see that the mouse is basically registering a tiny micro drag instead of
a discrete click. Now, it's possible that the main factor in all this is just
that we have so much practice using horizontal like regular mice and that
this could be a complete non-issue over time. Uh or it's possible that you don't
experience this issue at all and it's just a James thing. But all we can do is
tell you our experiences and this is what I experienced. So, there it is. One
thing we expect to be agreeable to everyone, though, is the MX Verticals
looks. Despite Logitech's obvious focus
on ergonomics, the mouse itself still manages to look, frankly, like a work of
art. It looks like a sea shell or a or a
sailboat or like a a sick jump. But even
seemingly design focused decisions here often have practical elements to them.
So, the soft touch rubber top, for example, is accented with these vertical
ribs that play with the light more than the graphite color otherwise would, but
also give it a pleasing grippy texture in the hand, so you can't accidentally
slip. Unfortunately, this mouse doesn't exist in a vacuum, and comparison is the
thief of joy. So, when we bring other mice into the picture, the MX Vertical
loses some of its luster. Even though the MX Vertical is lightweight and
advertised as having the elevated performance of the MX series, and even
though it has forward and back buttons, a DPI selector that goes up to 4,000
DPI, and left and right buttons that are rated to 10 million clicks, it still
feels like it got a little shafted in terms of features compared to its
siblings. So, despite demanding the same $99 price, the Vertical has the fewest
programmable buttons. It lacks a horizontal scroll wheel and gesture
control and dark field tracking for use
on highly reflective surfaces. And while I understand that the angle of the mouse
might have restricted Logitech from putting one of their awesome hyper
scrolling wheels on here, I feel like at least a tilt wheel probably wasn't too
much to ask. Honestly, other than ergonomics, the only thing about this
mouse that makes it stand out against the others in the lineup is the fact
that it uses USB type-C. So, you get the
reversability and the improvements to durability. Not to mention that it will
be handy to be able to use the same cable to charge your laptop, your
Android phone, and your mouse. But James
and I actually had a pretty good debate about this when we were going through this. You could make the argument that
some of those missing features that we mentioned before would be more important
to many users than the type of USB port.
In spite of all of that criticism, though, I can't think of any reason to
hate this mouse. Even if it was clearly
built for folks with medium to large hands, uh the forward button is a bit of
a a top shelf in the kitchen kind of experience for a smaller person like me.
It is expensive, but it's a high quality right-handed mouse with modern Logitech
benefits like dual connectivity via radio and Bluetooth, flow across
multiple machines, and this neat graphical DPI selector, which
unfortunately didn't work until I installed Logitech's options software.
So, so if you're looking for a vertical mouse to help you prevent or recover
from a repetitive strain injury and you don't mind spending three to five times
as much as the competitive offerings in exchange for the Logitech Pedigree, then
we can easily recommend it. Just don't try to game with it cuz it gets pretty
warm actually all that surface area. So, thanks for
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