Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air

[mrkgoo]

Heres the Proof:

Go to the System Prefs section

I don't think the two finger scrolling was considered a multi touch trackpad. That goes all the way back to G4 powerbooks.

 

[Sweetfeld28]

I don't think the two finger scrolling was considered a multi touch trackpad. That goes all the way back to G4 powerbooks.

Correct. But we are talking about Snow Leopard, which only applies to the Intel based computers, not the older PowerPC computers.

 

[mdntblu]

Yes, this means that any of the Laptops with two finger scrolling abilities, will now be able to have the 4 finger gestures.

Yes that is awesome. Now my brand new MacBook will have true multi-touch.

 

[brsboarder]

will my C2D 2007 macbook get this enabled?

 

[Sweetfeld28]

It will if mine does.



Correction: If mine doesn't, yours won't either. :-(

 

[pavinder]

I understand about 2006/7 models being of the 2-finger only trackpad detection but not true "gestures", so I assume this review (which seems to have been copied from numerous other reviews on other sites) has got things wrong then?
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mac/7-best-features-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-573?page=0,1

Perhaps this is the definitive answer:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/06/15/mult...macbooks-not-so-fast?icid=sphere_wpcom_inline

 

[JFreak]

So... no love for my old 2007 SR MBP then?

 

[Angsty]

Is there a System Preference to turn OFF the multitouch trackpad?? I find it impossible to type on the MBA keyboard for more than 1 sentence without "accidental touches" of the &%$# multitouch jumping my cursor all over the place

I ended up removing the multitouch preferences and reverted to the "old school" trackapd WITH the previous System Preference where I can choose to "ignore accidental touches of trackpad when typing" and "ignore trackpad when mouse is connected"

Finally, after 4 months of hell, I can type again!

Multitouch, schmultitouch!

Ang

 

[mdntblu]

Yes, this means that any of the Laptops with two finger scrolling abilities, will now be able to have the 4 finger gestures.

Doesn't work on my MacBook. It's a brand new MacBook (got it last month).

 

[Sweetfeld28]

Thanks for the reminder.

I am so disappointed by it not happening. This would of been my fav feature if it did happen, but oh well.