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Apple prepping software update for MacBook and MacBook Pro Multi-Touch™ trackpads
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Apple prepping software update for MacBook and MacBook Pro Multi-Touch™ trackpads Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 10:38 AM EST "Trackpad issues experienced by users of Apple's new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros will be addressed in a forthcoming software update, according to an email response from chief executive Steve Jobs," Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider. "One MacBook Pro owner mailed Jobs earlier this week and received a call back from Apple's customer relations department. He was told that the company was "researching the clicking issue" but as of yet could not determine a solution," Marsal reports. "However, another customer experiencing ...
BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks
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BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks, ‘beaten’ by HP Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 09:05 AM EST "From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated 'the pinch'—the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out of photos and Web pages on the iPhone—some Apple observers assumed it was just a matter of time before a multitouch-enabled screen showed up on the Mac," Arik Hesseldahl reports for BusinessWeek. "That hasn't happened yet. But as of Nov. 19, Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multitouch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. I can't help but wonder whether Apple just lost an important race." MacDailyNews ...
BusinessWeek: HP "out-touches" Apple
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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Portables, Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air
Talk about being slightly touched. Arik Hesseldahl's BusinessWeek article, published today, says "...as of Nov. 19, Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multi-touch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. I can't help but wonder whether Apple just lost an important race."
Not only did Apple not lose an important race, the tx2 isn't the first multi-touch notebook. Engadget points out ...
Tech journalist dumps Windows PC for Apple MacBook, offers advice about making the switch
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Tech journalist dumps Windows PC for Apple MacBook, offers advice about making the switch Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:33 AM EST Tech journalist for Computing.co.uk, Rosalie Marshall finally gave her "beaten-up old" Windows PC laptop the heave ho for a new Apple MacBook. "I have always had a few doubts about buying a Mac. They seemed overpriced; some software applications are not Mac compatible; and from my limited use of Macs, I know that they take a bit of getting used to after a PC," Marshall reports. "But I have overcome these quibbles, thanks to a recent visit to a duty free shop – when suddenly price became less of an issue." "The compatibility problem ...
BBC blows it: Microsoft to bring ‘multi-touch’ to PCs soon with ‘Windows Touch’
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BBC blows it: Microsoft to bring ‘multi-touch’ to PCs soon with ‘Windows Touch’ Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 09:12 AM EDT "The multi-touch controls familiar to Apple iPhone users will be built-in to Microsoft's Windows 7," Darren Waters, Technology editor, reports for BBC News. "Windows Touch will be a 'first class way to interact with your PC alongside mouse and keyboard,' said [Microsoft, which] believes multi-touch PCs will become popular in retail, public spaces, on laptops and 'kitchen PCs.'" MacDailyNews Take: Gorilla Arm ...
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