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MB Pro and MB - can they get MB Air Multitouch?
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there have been a few questions about this
general result is that the new advanced gestures are NOT POSSIBLE on current hardware
although the current mb(p) can detect two fingers, there is a difference in being able to detect two points of contact and two points of contact and also monitoring each points movement separately
its hard to explain, but i dont think it will happen with current hardware
may i ask why you want it?
i new gestures, zoom, rotate, and next/previous are faster to do on a keyboard than with the trackpad
for example, rotating a photo 180 degrees would be faster to position the mouse and double click with the trackpad than it would having to move one finger around another
general result is that the new advanced gestures are NOT POSSIBLE on current hardware
although the current mb(p) can detect two fingers, there is a difference in being able to detect two points of contact and two points of contact and also monitoring each points movement separately
its hard to explain, but i dont think it will happen with current hardware
may i ask why you want it?
i new gestures, zoom, rotate, and next/previous are faster to do on a keyboard than with the trackpad
for example, rotating a photo 180 degrees would be faster to position the mouse and double click with the trackpad than it would having to move one finger around another
I think it is possible, I could be completely wrong though. The reason I think this is that I had an old powerbook 15 inch back in the day and I downloaded software to make 2 finger scrolling possible. Since it obviously didn't have a trackpad that was deemed "hardware-capable" but still worked fine, I would think this would work on our current macbooks and macbook pros as well.