Does anyone know if this will have some sort of way to trigger a "middle click", like when one clicks on the scroll wheel? As far as I've seen with Apple mice, they've never had support for middle click.
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#42How do you right-click?
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I would replace my mouse at work with this in a heartbeat, but I'm a .net developer by day and need those windows drivers. (I use an MBP at home) I think they're missing a huge opportunity here by not providing those drivers. Obviously an opportunity they have decided they don't care about, I just wish they did.
Maybe if enough people ask? Or the product is generally popular enough? The iPod and the iPhone are only so popular because they embraced PC in all its ... glory. Hopefully they're already working on this.
The iPod didn't support Windows when it was released. Maybe Apple are doing the same thing here; I'm sure by not supporting Windows, they're able to get a better product out much quicker.
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#44Does anyone know if this will have some sort of way to trigger a "middle click", like when one clicks on the scroll wheel? As far as I've seen with Apple mice, they've never had support for middle click.
No middle click irked me for a while, but the two-finger tap, followed by a quick movement and single finger tap can be so quick and natural I don't notice this anymore.
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#45I was wondering when Apple would get around to doing that. I want Apple's version of this - http://www.google.com/products/catalog?&cid=102343875510... - Keyboard + trackpoint/pad, and make an external usb keyboard out of it.
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#46Is there any chance of this pairing with a non-Apple desktop? I'd dearly love to join in the multitouch trackpad fun, but my main workstations are Ubuntu.
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#47Back in the days, I always preferred the Trackpoints the IBM ThinkPads used and I never quite liked the trackpads. I'm even going as far as to say that I'm quite the trackpad hater - they never felt precise to me and required way too frantic finger movement to be really comfortable for me. But when I moved to Apple hardware, I basically was stuck with the trackpads, but this time around, it was different. The bigger…
The problem with trackpads are that you have to move your hand - great for normal browsing I suppose, but it sucks when you are writing code or typing.
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#48I wonder: * If it will be Inkwell compatible someday if not now: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/physical.html * If it will BT pair with iPhone like the BT keyboard.
No, just like the existing trackpads on the MacBook Pro, it's not Inkwell compatible.
And No, since you can't pair a bluetooth mouse with the iPhone, you also won't be able to pair a trackpad.
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#49How do you right-click?
If its like the laptops you press down with 2 fingers at once.
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#50How do you right-click?
On my MBP you can set it up to to right-click with a two fingered tap, I imagine this is the same. Otherwise I think you have to hold down command and click or something like that