“Apple’s latest, the Magic Trackpad, is one of the weirdest gadgets the company has shipped in recent memory,” Dan Frommer reports for The Business Insider. “But if you really love using a MacBook trackpad, or really don’t like mice, it could be the peripheral for you.”
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“Besides the usual pointing and clicking, there’s a bunch of multi-touch gesture controls supported by the trackpad, including scrolling, switching between apps, browsing back and forth between web pages, etc.,” Frommer reports. “After using it for about half an hour, we’re not completely sold on the concept, but it has potential.”
Frommer reports, “The biggest problem is the learning curve: It’s a weird and novel way to zoom around our big desktop screen, and it’s going to take some getting used to… But we’ve never been crazy about the semi-recent trend of wireless mice — the Magic Mouse doesn’t do it for us — so the Magic Trackpad is worth an extended try. And all the neat multi-touch gestures could end up being helpful once we learn how to use them.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you use an Apple MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro and do more than point and click with your trackpad and/or you use and love your Apple Magic Mouse, odds are that you’ll find the Magic Trackpad to be quite useful, indeed.
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