Original MacBook Air Capable of 4 Finger Gestures Through Software Update (flag)

www.macrumors.com — 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...

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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 ...