Macbook Pro Multi-touch touchpad

I am thinking of buying a macbook pro sometime around may. To those who have a macbook air or macbook pro with the multi touch touchpad. Do you really use the multi touch feature daily, or is it more of a feature that you use when you remember you have it? I know that the 2 finger scrolling is something that you would use daily, but i was thinking that the multi touch would just be used for fun and not many applications support it as of now.

 

I love it, browsing forums especially makes the multi-touch feature (3 fingers) AMAZING!!!! As for the other multi-touch features I do pinch from time to time. Of course clicking links with the touch pad sure beats using the clicker as well. The one I don't use to often is the rotating pictures. Although on saturday I was at my aunts house showing them pictures and I did rotate pictures then. But I don't find it a must.. Just a extra feature for that one.

 

Well the problem is that most of the gestures are not really integrated into OSX very well. The three finger back/forth swipe works in safari, but not other browsers such as firefox. For firefox, I just have a mouse gesture extension that only requires one finger. In finder, it would be useful if a three fingered swipe actually jumped up/down a folder, but it only goes through your history of recently visited folders. I don't use zoom/rotate a whole lot but then again I haven't gone through a bunch of pictures recently.

 

I'm about to get my mbp soon 17" hi res with multitouch and I use safari 99.999% of the time so works out for me

 

I use firefox most of the time so I guess the forward and back feature would not be too useful. But I think I'll go to the apple store and play around with the multi touch touchpad more before I make my final decision.

 

Does the scroll-up, scroll-down thingy work with Windows?

 

Hmm, i was wondering the same thing also....

 

It works on mine... which doesn't have the new multi-touch.

But I assume if it worked on the old trackpads, it would work on the new ones. Not sure if the rest of the features do though.

 

I have the new MBP 2.5 GHz with MultiTouchpad.

In windows it works with scroll, but it's extremely sensetive. I haven't found a way yet to set the sensetivity of the touchpad. The standard mouse settings in control doesn't affect.

Any have any solution to this or have any news about multitouch drivers for windows ?

 

i just relized i can go back/forward swiping three across it. COOLness!

 

I changed the main browser that I used from Firefox to Safari so that I could use the 3 finger swipe to go back and forth.

I've been having some problems with the 2 fingers on the touchpad and click for the right-click menu however. If anyone has a solution to this problem that would be great.

 

Really? It shouldn't be an issue...

Can you scroll a webpage with two fingers moving up-down-left-right? If so, then you should be able to right-click.

 

Ya, my scrolling works fine. The two finger right click doesn't.

 

Oh wait, have you enabled it yet? Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad and enable that feature "Place two fingers on trackpad for secondary click" first!

 

Haha, that would do it. I thought I had enabled it but I must have clicked it off by accident.

 

Haha, I remember forgetting to set that up when I re-installed OS X. Then a day later it hit me .

 

I don't use any of the new multi-touch features. In Mac OS I use FireFox and the the new multi-touch gestures don't work in it. But even in Safari the only thing which is useful is back-forward swipe. I don't use back-forward that often, since I usually open a new tab in case I think I will need to go back (for example opening each of the search results). In many site with dynamic content back doesn't work at all and I have to use site navigation only.

I set number of lines per scroll to 1 in mouse wheel settings and it seems to scroll slower.

 

hmm im seeing a few people with the same gen mbp's as me, but the multitouch stuff doesnt work on mine???

 

Its only for Penryn MacBook Pros, released in early 2008. If I remember correctly, you have a Santa Rosa MBP?

 

yep santa rosa it is, cheers anyway mate.

 

the three finger swipe is nice in safari, but I mostly use firefox to keep my bookmarks synced with foxmarks... it would be great if it worked also in safari.

the photo rotation in Preview is pretty cool, but I rarely use Preview to view photos and never use it to edit them

Multitouch also works in Aperture, and seems to be nicely implemented, but I haven't done any intensive processing recently so I tend to forget it's there.

I think it has a lot of potential, and is already quite good, but it is easy to forget it's there and a bit annoying what it is only available in some software

 

Its just not the same as on an iPhone/iTouch though . I'm sure its useful, but its not as revolutionary as on the iPhone/iTouch was.

 

i was just thinking and wouldn't it be a software thing for all this finger gesturing action? so why dont they have a update for the rest of us non penryn users?