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Software Update Brings Inertial Scrolling and Three-Finger Drag Gesture to Recent Apple Notebooks

jtara said:
Huh? On the iPhone, you drag down to scroll down as well.

Maybe you've been holding your iPhone upside-down all this time? ;)
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Pardon? On the iPhone, if you want to see what is BELOW the current visible area (scroll-down) you move your finger UP. However, to do the same in OSX you move your fingers DOWN.
 
GabooN said:
Its in BTT. Trackpad settings -> General.

It will invert ALL vertical scrolling though, even on magic mouse.
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Haha, wow, was right under my nose. I just saw the quote and magic mouse and assumed it was just for that. Thanks!!

well, it doesn't invert the 3 finger side swipe like for iphoto, and the scrolling on the mighty mouse is inverted too, so thats kinda odd to get used to. Guess I'll just live with it. I've managed to get by this long.
 
HommePomme said:
Pardon? On the iPhone, if you want to see what is BELOW the current visible area (scroll-down) you move your finger UP.
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Mea culpa...

For some reason, though, I don't have any problem with this. So much so, that I even thought that they were both the same.

I think it's because on the Macbook you are scrolling a window on the larger screen, where on the iPhone, you are scrolling the entire screen. I think the presence of scroll bars (absent on the iPhone) also reinforces the direction. You swipe in the same direction that you would move the scroll bar.

Both seem natural to me, and I never had any temptation to use the opposite gesture. I assume that Apple did usability testing and found that one is more natural on a notebook and the other is more natural on a phone.

This might also explain the lack of a "bounce" at the end. On the Macbook they aren't creating the analogy of a scrolling roll of paper.
 
bushido said:
what about the late 2009 MBP 13 inch? does it work? i see no reason gainst but its not listed there
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I'm not sure why they put the 15" and 17" Mid 2010 MBP under that list. The 15" and 17" Mid 2010 MacBook Pros already have inertia scrolling. The 13" Mid 2010 also has inertia scrolling too. This 1.0 trackpad update gives ALL of the 2010 MacBook Pros the 3 finger drag gesture. So, yes the 13" MBP gets the 3 finger gestures too.
 
OH HOW I HAVE BEEN LONGING FOR THIS DAY!!! :D

From now on as a de facto standard, if ANY device or computer does NOT have inertial scrolling... THEY BLEW IT! :D
 
I have a White Macbook from early 2009. I've installed the update but it doesn't appear to work.

Anyone else with the same problem??
 
cwmac12321 said:
I have a White Macbook from early 2009. I've installed the update but it doesn't appear to work.

Anyone else with the same problem??
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I have an early 2008 MBP and it won't work either. I see the "Setup up Trackpad" but not the three finger gesture.

Ooops, please ignore. Looks like my laptop will only support inertial scrolling but not the 3 finger gesture.
 
Iggy said:
Ermmm...so what I don't understand is why you have to choose between navigating or dragging? You can only do the three finger drag when the pointer is on the title bar and I don't think the pointer has ever been on the title bar when I've been trying to navigate! So why not have both at the same time? You have to bring the pointer over to the page you want to navigate on anyway.
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Yeah, I didn't understand either why Apple couldn't have put both as an option.
 
My sister's MacBook that I bought her has had inertia scrolling ever since we received it. I was wondering why my MBP didn't have it! Now I do.
 
When you have 3 finger dragging enabled, and you use three fingers and swipe when your cursor is over text, it highlights the text!

I wasn't going to search the entire thread if someone already posted this, but its pretty neat to not have to click and drag to highlight text!
 
i installed the update on my white macbook (mid 2009) but the gestures wont work. the trackpad menu in settings is the same as it was before the update!
does my macbook support 3 finger move and inertia scrolling?
 
well, as you can tell by my sig, ive got the newest MBP that had inertial scrolling built in and I can safely say that all users getting this update will fall in love with it...but...good luck using any other laptop or OS without inertial scrolling with ease :p
 
HommePomme said:
Too bad three-finger window dragging only works when the cursor is on the title bar...
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caliguy said:
Even if it did, not worth it IMO. I use three fingers for navigation (Safari back/forward) far more than I would want to move a window.
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Three-finger drag is not window-specific. It's intended to replace the 1.5-tap/drag gesture which many people have a problem with and the click-hold/drag gesture many other people have a problem with. I think it works quite well.

IMHO these kinds of shortcuts for the forward/back buttons are just plain silly. I rarely use forward/back just once (if I want to go back, it's usually three or four pages back so I want to use the drop-down; I pretty much never go "forward" unless I step too many screens "back"). But then, I've thought this was silly for about twelve or thirteen years (since the MS mice put dedicated forward/back buttons on the sides, which later turned into programmable buttons), and still it persists, so I'll accept I'm not in the overwhelming majority here :)

But, in any case, for me it's a slam-dunk. I had been using the physical click/drag before; the three-finger drag is much easier to do and easier on the hand.
 
You said it right: "Recent Apple Notebooks"
People think it has something to do with the hardware, but it's all bullsh**. The updates are written only for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) knowing damn well that ppc users of iBook & PowerBook can only use up to 10.5...

... And the pages turn.

Just another way to get you to get you to buy a new computer even though none of us actually need a new computer. :rolleyes:
 
kinsif said:
i installed the update on my white macbook (mid 2009) but the gestures wont work. the trackpad menu in settings is the same as it was before the update!
does my macbook support 3 finger move and inertia scrolling?
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Well it says on the front page that the early, mid, and late '09 MB's all support inertial scroll AND 3 finger support.

After I installed the update, I went to System Preferences > Trackpad, and the 'with Inertia' option was already selected under the 'Two Finger' option...
 
I tried System Update several times and got nothing for my mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13".

Then I found this on the Apple site:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1066

Looks like we can download it directly.


Edit: Looks like it requires Snow Leopard. Guess I'll have to upgrade to that first.
 
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