“Logitech offered an olive branch on Tuesday to Windows users who want the experience of the Magic Trackpad without having to get a Mac,” Electronista reports.
“The Wireless Touchpad provides the same basic concept of a multi-touch trackpad on the desktop with a five-inch ‘buttonless’ surface that can sit anywhere,” Electronista reports. “Special drivers give Windows the support it doesn’t normally have, including two-finger scrolling, three-finger page flip gestures, and four-finger app switches.”
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Electronista reports, “The peripheral should be shipping before the end of the month and will cost less than its Magic Trackpad counterpart at $50.
Full article with photos of the device here.
MacDailyNews Take: Late, fake, and half-baked. Perfect for Windows sufferers.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
“Buttonless”? It looks like it has two rather large buttons.
The Magic Trackpad has two buttons too, actually. But they are the two botton corner “nubs” on the underside of the Magic Trackpad. When you press down on the tracking surface, the nub clicks down (or up) and the “button” (on either side) is pressed. The track pad is one single solid surface. Such elegance and simplicity…
One button is mapped to , the other performs a hard reboot. Perfect for Windows users.
Isn’t Logitech just begging to be sued? I can’t believe that Apple licensed the relevant patents to them…
If you look at the picture in the linked article, I would hardly call it a “clone.” It’s barely a distant relative… 🙂
the ugly stepsister…
Thanks. Now I have to clean the tea off my screen again.
I’m dying at these “clean the x off my screen” comments, and after I looked at it… ugly stepsister is a compliment.
The track pad is one single solid surface. Such elegance and simplicity…
Ken1W, you wouldn’t want Logitech to pull a Google or Samsung and shamelessly rip off Apple’s beautiful simplistic design for our new post PC era would you?
Logitech has got to make it look more like old Windows PC to be safe from an Apple lawsuit.
I only hope Logitech’s ripoff has lots of stickers – me loves stickers.
I can just imagine how clunky and slow this thing will be;
“It looks like you are trying to rotate a photograph. Would you like Clippy to assist you?”
“Please wait while the Windows Photo Wizard loads”
“Please wait while Windows configures your fake trackpad”
“Windows has encountered a General Exception on line 88685568755. Please restart and try again.”
You nailed it, Rasta!
You have to be careful and take your time using logitech’s trackpad, if you go to fast you’ll get the blue screen of death.
Damn that’s funny. I now must wipe coffee off of the iPad.
Wow, it’s totally phat! Er, I mean fat.
My Apple Trackpad works fine under Bootcamp install of Win7. But u don’t know if drivers exist to use with Winbloze on a WinTel machine, as I never tried. If not, Apple should release some.
Why in the world would they want, much less “need”, to do that?
That is one butt-ugly lump of plastic.
Au contraire. I think it would look wonderful
next to my lava lamp. 🙂
With the old Sony casette Walkman next to it? Maybe a pet rock as well.
Looks like the designers of the Pontiac Aztek are working for Logitech these days.
I have to use windows at work so i might give it a try just for giggles
“Officially, the Wireless Touchpad requires Windows 7 to work, although it may have basic support on Mac OS X . ”
why?
why someone with Mac OS X would want this ugly thing, when we already have the Magic Trackpad?
no way!
Why? Because this version is cheaper.
i bet it feels cheaper too
For everyone who can’t stand this Logitech device you need not worry because I’m sure MS’s ‘version’ of the device will be shipping about the time Windows 8 comes out 😉
Wow that logitech would have looked so awesome in 1999….. I would have loved one of these back then, no multi touch required.
Mac envy.
All those “touchpads” by Logitech will end up being returned to the stores. WIndows users are too stupid and too ignorant to understand “finger gesturing”. Such a device will only confuse those sheep.
I had the pleasure of trying of of these retro goodies and it did not work. I could move the thing around the mouse mat in whatever direction but it did not move the pointer. I tried restarting Win7 a couple of times, waited for the updates to download, to install, to reboot, to install again and to reboot after the restart. The help desk then told me to use my fingers! I said: This is where I draw the line! Perverts, all of them!