Mac touchpads

[gusl]

Is it possible to get an Apple computer with 2 buttons, corresponding to the right & left buttons in PCs? What is this multitouch touchpad business?

Comments

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

The multitouch means that you can do a stroke on the touchpad with one, two, three, or four fingers with different effects. One is moving the mouse, two functions as a scroll button, three jumps to top and bottom of page, four displays all open windows or exposes the desktop. Ctrl-click functions as right-click.

[psifenix.livejournal.com]

You can also set it to make "tap with two fingers" equal to right clicking.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

excellent.

hm... can't you also set "tap with 3 fingers" to be like right-clicking?

I like having a scroll button.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

but you should be able to scroll with 1 finger! I do it in my touchpad on Windows (the right side of the touchpad, not the button).

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

Tap with two fingers != scroll with two fingers.

It's really quite natural to scroll with two fingers. Also, can you scroll with the bottom (or top) of the touchpad? I find myself terribly limited with a mouse by not being able to scroll horizontally.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

Man, I HATE that right-side-of-the-touchpad thing. I guess when it's your touchpad you get used to what's where, but as an occasional user it's very frustrating. I like Apple's two-finger scrolling a lot more.

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

Though the touch pad and its gestures are all lovely, I am accustomed to the two button mouse so I have a wireless mouse that takes up one of my USB ports. It is not necessarily super convenient for travel, but I like it most of the time. I use rechargeable batteries in it.