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Multi Touch on the new White Macbook?

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mattrgee

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Can anyone confirm whether multi touch has been added to the White Macbook as part of the refresh? I noticed there was mention of a hack that could enable multi touch on the last White MacBook, but details seemed few and far between. Has anyone tried it?

Thanks.
 
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Nocturnal22

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Feb 23, 2009
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mattrgee said:
Can anyone confirm whether multi touch has been added to the White Macbook as part of the refresh? I noticed there was mention of a hack that could enable multi touch on the last White MacBook, but details seemed few and far between. Has anyone tried it?

Thanks.
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nope they wont do that they need something to differentiate the 2 macbooks
 
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Chozo

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Actually, I remember seeing a YouTube video that showed that the MacBook already had multi-touch. It could recognize up to 11 fingers I believe.

The MacBook just doesn't use it since Apple wants to restrain it like Nocturnal22 said. I think the guy is writing a program to allow MacBooks to use multi-touch as well.
 
andalusia

andalusia

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You can scroll up and down using two fingers on the early 2009 whitebook, and use two fingers for right click. Anything else is not displayed in system preferences.
 
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Chozo

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tristangage said:
You can scroll up and down using two fingers on the early 2009 whitebook, and use two fingers for right click. Anything else is not displayed in system preferences.
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MacBooks have had that ability for quite a while.
 
blackhand1001

blackhand1001

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I bet theres a hack to enable the rest of the gestures. These gestures can even be enabled on many PC's with synaptics touchpads with a hack or two.
 
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wakka092

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tayloralmond said:
If someone writes a program to enable multi-touch on a WhiteBook, I don't think I'd ever have a reason to get a Unibody MacBook lol.
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The multi-touch gestures (besides right-click and scrolling) are hardware based. I did see a multi-touch trackpad on eBay that someone took from a uMB. It would be interesting to see if someone could retrofit one.
 
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H$R

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Chozo said:
Actually, I remember seeing a YouTube video that showed that the MacBook already had multi-touch. It could recognize up to 11 fingers I believe.

The MacBook just doesn't use it since Apple wants to restrain it like Nocturnal22 said. I think the guy is writing a program to allow MacBooks to use multi-touch as well.
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Yes that's right, I've seen that too. But I think it's under Linux only.

Have a look at this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/600968/
 
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