6 Takes On Apple’s Magic Trackpad [Magictrackpad]

We think Apple\’s Magic Trackpad marks the beginning of the tip of Mac OS X. Other reviewers of the Magic Trackpad touched other subjects. Listed below are the highlights of what they said.

Ars Technica thought the Magic Trackpad matched perfectly with Apple\’s Wireless Keyboard:

There\’s not much within the box besides the trackpad and a manual. The enclosure is made from aluminum with a thin layer of glass on the tracking surface, though you wouldn\’t realize it from the touch. The Magic Trackpad is designed to mirror the functionality and feel of the trackpads built into Apple\’s MacBook Pros, but to appear like a partner to Apple\’s Wireless Keyboard. The head and bottom align with the keyboard perfectly, and they match each other aesthetically.

Slash Gear discovered some new options inside the Trackpad\’s settings:

Thanks to the hot settings pane, however, that you could selectively shut off certain gestures while you don\’t use them, adjust tracking, double-click and scrolling speed (including optional inertia), and change the behavior of three-finger use. As opposed to flipping pages, you could set it to pull windows around the screen (a new software update adds a similar optional functionality to MacBook trackpads).

CNET found the Magic Trackpad offered limited multitouch for Windows:

Though the wording on the box claims a Mac is critical, we successfully paired the Magic Trackpad with a Windows PC. Unfortunately, Windows functionality is proscribed to single-touch and click functions only-we couldn\’t get multitouch settings together with pinch-to-zoom and tap-to-click to work on the Magic Trackpad. A Windows support download from Apple wouldn\’t install on a Windows PC, and is intended for Boot Camp users running Windows on their Macs.

MacWorld didn\’t think you could possibly use the Magic Trackpad for your lap:

One place the Magic Trackpad doesn\’t sit especially well is for your lap with a keyboard. In case you\’re using Apple\’s Wireless Keyboard with, say, a Mac mini at your residence entertainment system, you\’ll likely wish for a version of the keyboard with the trackpad permanently attached. I think it won\’t be long before an enterprising third party announces a convenient tray that holds the Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad together.

Engadget managed to make the trackpad register 10 touch points and touched on its usefulness as a HTPC remote:

As you may expect, the trackpad is multitouch and responds to gestures using up to four fingers, though the trackpad registered way more touch points in my testing, even up to all ten of my fingers (tested using the third party Better Touch Tool)…Top-of-the-line uses I found for the Magic Trackpad was as a control surface for my HTPC setup. Normally I exploit something called Air Mouse on my iPhone to regulate the Mac Mini I actually have connected to my TV – but the Magic Trackpad did excellent stand-in work for it during my testing.

PC Mag wanted to peer it offered with the hot iMacs:

Too bad you will\’t replace the Magic Mouse with the Magic Trackpad in an order for a new iMac, on account that they cost an identical.

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