Hands On With The New Magic Trackpad

A first look at Apple's new Magic Trackpad which brings multi-touch gestures to your desktop has been posted online by several sites.

MacWorld
The available gestures—helpfully displayed on the back of the Magic Trackpad’s box—are identical to those you can use on a MacBook: besides moving the cursor, you can click, right-click, double-click, click-drag, two-finger scroll, two-finger rotate, two-finger pinch and zoom, two-finger screen zoom, three-finger swipe, and four-finger swipe.

The new trackpad software also adds a couple new gesture options, both to the Magic Trackpad and to most recent Apple laptops. You can now opt for scrolling with inertia, and the three-finger gesture, which previously could be used only to navigate—to turn pages, flip through photos, or switch Safari tabs, for example—can now instead be used as a substitute for click-drag.

Engadget
It feels just like using a slightly larger version of a MacBook or MacBook Pro pad. And we mean exactly, right down to the multitouch gestures and whole-pad click. Yes, it clicks. There's also a new gesture, if you're keeping track -- a three-finger move that lets you drag windows around (very helpful), though you give up the functionality of being to navigate stuff like iPhoto galleries with a swipe (it's an option you can toggle in preferences -- you have a choice).



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