mbp owners, do you like your multi-touch?

[compuguy1088]

ok so i'm still waiting for my new macbook pro and wanted to know from the people who now have theirs wheather they've been using they're new multi-touch track pad, and wheather it was worth waiting?

cheers!

my MBP does not have multitouch, so I wouldn't know .

 

[alphaod]

my MBP does not have multitouch, so I wouldn't know .

You're not missing much.

Let me see:
No Aperture support, no Adobe support, not Minefield support, no Opera support.

Okay I've exhausted the applications it would be used for.

So it's pretty useless to me.

 

[andrewdale]

It's amazing how people can figure out ways to put something down.

I quite enjoy my multi-touch.

No problems with mistaken gestures.

I like it. Mark me down.

 

[alphaod]

It's amazing how people can figure out ways to put something down.

I'm not putting it down. Just saying it need further developments at this time.

 

[kashik]

Multi-touch is very very nice. I can really tell the difference when I boot into Windows. I HATE not being able to use it.

 

[ajx22]

Love it!!!

Fantastic feature!!!

 

[fafsa1025]

It will have my love once it's compatible with Firefox.

 

[Zeos]

I like it a lot, especially the three-finger browsing/page-turning function. It becomes very second nature, so I find myself missing it on my Dell at work. As subtle as the feature is, it's a stroke of genius from Apple.

 

[aforty]

To be honest, I haven't used the multi-touch features (not counting two-fingered right-click). They also could have put a bigger track pad in like the Air, my 17" has a ton of unused space, would have been nice to have more area to drag windows around in and all that.

The multi-touch features just aren't very compelling or integrated very well into the OS. You can use the 3-finger swipe to go back and forth in Safari and then the standard stuff you can do in iPhoto/Preview. But to be honest, doing the motion of expanding your fingers (to zoom) just isn't a very comfortable motion. Neither is the sideways motion (to rotate a picture) when I can just drag my mouse to the appropriate button and click it, or better yet use a keyboard shortcut.


Bottom line is that there is potential but at the moment it just isn't very well used. As time goes by I could see things getting better in terms of integration but even then I think the relatively small size of the trackpad could hold the whole thing back a bit. That's my two cents.

 

[lonesoul]

i dont know how i ever lived without multitouch, navigating couldn't be much simpler on a laptop, i think the multitouch alone was worth the penryn upgrade

It will have my love once it's compatible with Firefox.

http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell/ multiclutch does that for all the apps

 

[AreanFSL]

I played around with my friends new MBP and using the forward and backward swipe on safari was really fun and apple-like.