macrumors.com - 11/15/2008
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Hardmac points back to a post made in our own forums which details the experience of one user enabling four finger gestures on his 1st generation MacBook Air. I can confirm the four finger gesture is possible on pre-October 2008 lapto...
appleinsider.com - 11/11/2008
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appleinsider.com —
Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world's thinnest
notebook earlier this year with the introduction of the...
MacBook Air, but is rumored to be unsatisfied with the system's weight, which it now hopes to drop below 3 pounds.
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Apple may turn to carbon fiber for lighter MacBook Air
forums.macrumors.com - 11/18/2008
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forums.macrumors.com —
I recently picked up a used Macbook Air
1.6 The bottom case is black without any markings...
on it. Computer does boot up, but the battery has swollen and distorted the case. I removed the bottom of the case and pulled the battery with thoughts of ...
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Fake / Prototype Macbook Air - Mac Forums
forums.macrumors.com - 11/14/2008
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forums.macrumors.com —
I can confirm the four finger gesture is
possible on pre-October 2008 laptops, and I currently have...
four finger Exposé and Application Switching working on my January 2008 MacBook Air. Here's what I did: My girlfriend recently bought a new unibody ...
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Mac Forums - View Single Post - Old MBP. Do we get the ...
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Four-finger gestures hacked into older MacBooks
Engadget —
... 2008 Apple laptops can get the four-finger Exposé and Application Switching working -- all's that required is the install disc from a unibody MacBook, a little tweak of the registry and a pinch of patience. We can't say for sure how far back this hack will go (we're guessing your PowerBook G3 is out of luck), but we do know that it works just fine with a January '08 MacBook Air. Give it a go if you're a risk taker, but don't blame us if your atoms start to melt. [Via MacRumors] Four-finger gestures hacked into older MacBooks originally appeared on ...
Enable Four-Finger Gestures on Original MacBook Air with Dangerous Scary Hack [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... He can use Exposé and Application Switcher just like the newer models, and suspects all later-model MacBooks could also work. Macrumors warns that this is absolutely not recommended for the casual user, and could have awful results you and I can't even guess at, but it's definitely an impressive trick. Makes you wonder why Apple couldn't have just updated all of the older machines via a firmware upgrade, doesn't it? [Macrumors] ...
News Roundup for November the 17th
Apple Eclectic —
... The weekend’s big news — where ‘big’ is in comparison to, for instance, the news that the original MacBook Air can handle four finger gestures — is of course Google’s ...
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Hack shows that 4-finger gestures could come to older Macs —
Infinite Loop
Why do brand new MacBook and MacBook Pro users get to have all the fun when multitouch capabilities are built into a handful of older Mac notebooks? A software hack has shown that an original MacBook Air can gain four-finger multitouch capabilities through software, which means Apple could add ...
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