Future Macbooks to have multi-touch technology

Sunday, Jul. 1 2007 | Author: Griffith

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should already know about the iPhone’s multi-touch technology that allows to do things you normally couldn’t by placing one, or two, fingers on the touch-screen and doing simple gestures.

According to this latest rumor, that CrunchGear got a hold of, this type of technology is going to be included in all of the upcoming Macbooks that will be released in October. If we consider the previous rumor that mentioned that these laptops were going to be thinner and made out of new materials, then it seems like Apple’s future is looking brighter and brighter. And I’m really happy that they’re not just investing all of their efforts on the iPod and the, instantly successful, iPhone.

Apple Gazette, way back in Febuary, predicted that Multi-touch would be a new feature of some Apple products, including Macbooks and Macbook Pros.

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2 Responses for "Future Macbooks to have multi-touch technology"

Jeff Croft

July 1st, 2007 at 10:42 pm
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This rumor, as it’s outlined on CrunchGear, makes no sense at all. They say the trackpad will be the input device for the new, exciting multi-touch technology. This completely ignores the fact that trackpads have been touch-based input devices for a decade now, and Macs have had multi-touch trackpads for at least a couple of years (remember two finger scrolling?).

So basically, the rumor is that Apple is going to add multi-touch trackpads to MacBooks? Seems to me this rumor comes about two years late.
John J.

July 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 am
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Well… I think the point is they are adding more gesture functionality to the trackpad, and since they just released a flagship device with similar functionality they are using that as an excuse to put a feature name they have been beating into our heads for the past year onto another product.

…But that’s just me.