Multi-touch trackpad on MacBook Air
Category: Mac
Steve Jobs is on stage right now in San Francisco for the Macworld 2008 keynote and he is introducing “The World’s Thinnest Notebook”. It’s called the MacBook Air and it has a multi-touch trackpad, 13.3″ widescreen LED backlit display, and 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. You can move a window in Mac OSX by double-tap and move. Rotate a photo by pivoting your index finger around your thumb. And of course, pinch-zoom. More infos on this new multi-touch notebook later!
From Steve Jobs Keynote:
“We’ve got a very generous trackpad, which is great. We’ve also built in multi-touch gesture support. We’ve taken that even further, you’ll actually be able to turn on all sorts of new gestures.”“You can double-tap and move the whole window, not just the cursor. When you’re in a large photo you can pan around with two fingers. When you want to rotate a photo, just rotate your fingers. We learned in the iPhone and we’re putting it in our notebook computers.”
“If you want to go between photos, pan right, pan left — if you want to zoom, pinch in and out. Isn’t that great?”
From Apple.com:
MacBook Air’s revolutionary multi-touch trackpad lets you navigate your applications more efficiently.MacBook Air includes an oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology. You can pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image. This gesture-based input so successful on iPhone and iPod touch now comes to MacBook.
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2 Comments
1. TK | January 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
i own a macbook pro 17”
is it possible to have the multitouch technology on my notebook.. a downloadable update patch perhaps to start using the new features that are available in macbook air (pinch, swipe and rotate..) ?
thank you for your reply
best regards,
Teekay McArzel
2. itouch porn | January 31st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a “mouse pad trackpad” with multitouch for desktop computers so you would just use your fingers instead of a mouse? I’m sure it’s the next logical step. The future is not a multitouch screen but a multi-touch “mouse pad”.