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Apple Releases Multi-Touch Trackpad Update for Windows & Vista

Clarification

I may be wrong (and please let me know if I am), but are MacBooks and MBP's running windows the only windows machines available with multi-touch gestures? Are there other companies releasing machines with similar hardware?
 
likegadgets said:
is this recommended for an XP virtual machine (parallels)?
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Probably would not hurt? My finger gestures always worked on my early 2008 whitebook via parallels.

as for the click and draging, may turn that off. i may be a little heavy fingered - I seem to be dragging something unmeaningly, since I turned it on.
 
slidingjon said:
I may be wrong (and please let me know if I am), but are MacBooks and MBP's running windows the only windows machines available with multi-touch gestures? Are there other companies releasing machines with similar hardware?
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that is a tough question. I think initially it was Apple and Apple patented it. But I also think that patents expire after a while and our free-enterprise allows for similar products (ie Coke/Pepsi). Since Apple is the leader in stuff like this, I think more and more will jump into this market/ability. Ie Firefox supposingly supports this now, not sure about the Windows version.
 
Tap to Click was on my BootCamp before the update. Maybe only the new MacBooks have Tap to Click. But now 2 Fingers do right click and dragging works a lot better. Great Update
 
MacFly123 said:
So do the Apple multi-touch gestures work on anything in windows running on a Mac? I'm confused lol! :confused:
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I don't care about that, I just want normal stuff like selecting text and moving the pointer without scrolling the page to work correctly.

Buskape said:
It's funny how i would have never heard of such updates without browsing these forums, thanks to this community!
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It showed up in Apple Software Update for me.
 
ok ive installed the drivers and everything but Ive noticed that when I installed and restarted I got errors when Gaming :S ive never lagged in CoD4 and now I do, and when I play CS:S I get an error....
 
I was really excited when I saw the news on Page 2 until I read this:
rIver89 said:
I get "This update is not intended for this computer and will not be installed." error as well. I think this update will only work with the late 2008 macbooks...:mad:
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What a crock of #$%@#$%! What about all of the people who bought early 2008 models? I sent a complaint to Apple a while ago about the crappy trackpad behavior in Boot Camp. Looks like I'll be sending them another one.:mad:
 
valvehead said:
I was really excited when I saw the news on Page 2 until I read this:


What a crock of #$%@#$%! What about all of the people who bought early 2008 models? I sent a complaint to Apple a while ago about the crappy trackpad behavior in Boot Camp. Looks like I'll be sending them another one.:mad:
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Apple wants you to buy a new late 2008 model. It's a theme they have, to screw old customers.
 
jfuehner said:
So, I too was completely pissed to find out that this trackpad update only worked on late 2008 MB's... So, I unzipped the exe using winrar and installed manually...

Even though it says the drivers were installed successfully they do not appear to do anything... Still have the same ol' crappy touchpad experience....
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So you installed drivers for different hardware than yours, and expected them to magically make things better? :eek:
 
Before the update the trackpad was practically unusable. With the update it's a lot better but still frustrating. The big problem is that, unlike in OS X, the thumb is recognized as an extra finger. If you happen to rest the thumb on the pad while moving the pointer, the entire screen scrolls. Even worse, when clicking the pad with the thumb any little movement of the thumb will move the pointer away from the intended position. So you have to position the pointer ... just ... so ... or you get a misclick. A lot.
 
I can't find a adjustment for trackpad sensitivity.
Since the update my trackpad (late 08) has uber sensitivity and I can barely use the thing.

Any help?
 
Well, I screwed up big time... I did the update as said earlier by others with an early 2008 MBP, but now multi-touch doesn't work at all! :confused:
Anyone know how I can rollback the drivers in XP? Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks, and happy holidays.
 
Possible problems with Half Life 2 Episode Two and other Steam games...

Hi,
I'm sorry to deliver bad news, but it seems that the update needs a "touch" of extra efforts.
Secondary button using two fingers tap works fine now, but as soon as I start playing games, things go very badly.
I'm using a 15" macbook pro, new model, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 9400m+9600m.
With a fresh Windows Xp Pro sp2 32bit installation and only the bootcamp drivers installed on top of that (OSX install disc, 10.5.5, Version 1.0) I had no problems (I tested Bioshock 1.1, Company of Heroes, World in Conflict demo, Half Life 2 Episode Two, Portal, World of Goo, 3dmark06 free).
After installing 2.1.2.100 update, some games start to crash, in particular hl2ep2, portal, world of goo (since the first problems appeared on steam, I started testing other steam games, but it's possible that the problems are not restricted to them).
In particular World of Goo reports ODE errors, hl2ep2 reports a long error message regarding a prop_static object, and Portal had similar problems.
Now, I know World of Goo isn't very popular (but I'm getting addicted), but since it affects valve games as well, situation seems a bit sad for gamers...:confused:
Have you experienced similar problems?
Thanks for your attention,
somewhere in time

P.S. Reverting back to the old drivers solve all these problems... but I hope for a better solution...
 
I will second the motion that there are some major bugs with these drivers.

I have one or two piddly "time killer" games that I have to run in Windows, but they crash within minutes when using the trackpad under the new drivers. If I use a bluetooth mouse though all is well.

According to the error messages I'm getting there appears to be some kind of memory leak with the new drivers.

Pity, as for once the trackpad works just as well in Windows as it does in OS X. I guess I need to file a bug report with Apple and hope it is a simple fix.
 
Still Can't Right-Click

Okay, I am new to this site (as a contributor anyway) and although I've used a Mac at work for several months, I only recently got a MacBook of my own.

I've been searching for an answer for days, I will truly appreciate it if someone could either give me an answer or direct me to where I could find one.

I have a new 13" MacBook (late 2008 aluminum unibody).
Boot Camp 2.1 (build 210A12)
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit.

I have installed the Multi Touch Trackpad update, and according to my driver details, the drivers for items listed as Apple Multitouch and Apple Multitouch Mouse are both version 2.1.2.100

But I still have no right click using any number of fingers. (also, no tap-to-click or scrolling) And no trackpad tab in the Boot Camp Control Panel.

Everything else, from iSight to the backlight keyboard shortcuts, work fine.

Any ideas?
 
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