 | Apple Magic Trackpad |
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Product Description
The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. And inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. Use it in place of a mouse or in conjunction with one.Product Details
- Brand: Apple
- Model: MC380LL/A
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .72" h x 5.12" w x 5.17" l, .31 pounds
Features
- Magic Trackpad gives you a whole new way to control what’s on your Mac desktop computer.
- Swiping through pages on screen is just like flipping through pages in a magazine.
- Inertial scrolling senses the momentum in your fingers as you move up and down a page.
- Nearly 80 percent larger than the built-in trackpad on the MacBook Pro, giving you plenty of room to perform gestures.
- Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
The first Multi-Touch Trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer, the Apple Magic Trackpad lets your fingers do the clicking, scrolling, and swiping. The Apple Magic uses the same Multi-Touch technology found on the MacBook Pro, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what's on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine. Inertial scrolling makes moving up and down a page more natural than ever. And users can press down anywhere on the Multi-Touch surface to physically click or double-click on an item--no clumsy buttons involved.
The Magic Trackpad is just like the trackpad on the MacBook Pro--but bigger. It's made with the same advanced touch-friendly and wear-resistant glass surface, but with nearly 80 percent more area. This gives you even more room to scroll, swipe, pinch, and rotate to your fingers' content. And because the entire surface is a button that clicks, you can use it in place of a mouse without losing a hint of functionality. The Magic Trackpad's full set of gestures includes two-finger scrolling, pinching to zoom, rotating with your fingertips, three-finger swiping, and activating Expose or switching between applications with four fingers. Plus, the trackpad is customizable. Simply access the Magic Trackpad pane in System Preferences to enable gestures you want and disable those you don't.
The Magic Trackpad--which can work in place of a mouse or in conjunction with the mouse on any Mac computer (even a notebook)--requires a Bluetooth-enabled Mac computer, two AA batteries (included), Mac OS X Snow Leopard v 10.6.4, and the latest software update.
The Largest Multi-Touch Trackpad Ever
 The Apple Magic Trackpad responds to a variety of finger gestures for clicking, scrolling, and swiping. |
Seamless Wireless Design
The Magic Trackpad fits in perfectly with your Mac desktop, with the same sculpted aluminum design as the Apple Wireless Keyboard. In fact, side by side the two sit flush at the same angle and height. This lets you go from trackpad to keyboard in a single motion, or do both at the same time. How perfect is that? The Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology, so you don't have to deal with an annoying cable that dictates where you place it. Once you pair the Magic Trackpad with your Bluetooth-enabled Mac, you'll enjoy a reliable, secure connection up to 33 feet away. In addition, the Magic Trackpad detects periods of inactivity, with an automatic shutoff feature that saves battery life. As an alternative, you can turn it off yourself. Both options keep you gesturing for months at a time.The Magic Trackpad--which can work in place of a mouse or in conjunction with the mouse on any Mac computer (even a notebook)--requires a Bluetooth-enabled Mac computer, two AA batteries (included), Mac OS X Snow Leopard v 10.6.4, and the latest software update.
 The trackpad sits flush with the Apple Wireless Keyboard, making it easy to switch between the two. |
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews94 of 96 people found the following review helpful.
Works just like the macbook pro trackpad By P. Song
I have a strong preference for touchpads over mice so I was pretty delighted upon hearing about this being released by Apple. I have another touchpad made by Adesso that I use with desktops, but it is wired and not nearly as nice or large as the Apple one.
This trackpad works exactly like the built-in one on the macbook pro. It's slim and very elegant looking. There is no lag like you get with wireless optical mice. The glass surface, however, has a bit of 'texture' to it unlike the macbook's trackpad which is shiny. It's almost like a matte finish to it which is ok as a perfectly shiny glass surface can stick a bit if your fingers are a little sweaty. (But if your fingers are dry, the shiny feels a little better :)
It's well constructed and seems sturdy. The top part that holds the battery feels cool like aluminum though I'm not sure if it is. But it's not cheap plastic. It has a nice solid feel and I'm extremely happy with it. I visited the local Apple store to try it out before buying, but they did not have it in yet. But I'm glad I went ahead and ordered it from Apple because it's exactly what I wanted. I will never use another mouse again!
When you get it, make sure that you update your OS software to get the trackpad drivers. It will work without the update but you won't be able to adjust it and features will be missing. You might have your computer on auto update in which case you don't need to worry about this. But if you're a weirdo like me and prefer to manually update, then keep this in mind. When the batteries die, I'll update this review to give a sense of how long the batteries last.
46 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent choice for your media center Mac By Daniel Guerriero
I bought the trackpad for my 2010 Mac Mini, which I use mainly as a media center appliance, with XBMC.
In this context the trackpad adds a lot of usability for the following reasons:
* I don't need a surface for the mouse anymore. So it's basically like another remote, sitting beside me on the couch.
* I no longer require to use the keyboard, for basic operations. Thanks to the gestures, I can switch between running applications (e.g. from XBMC to Finder) without the need of the keyboard. In fact, since I bought the trackpad I hardly use the keyboard at all.
Cons (same context):
* If you're holding the trackpad with your hand or operating it on a soft surface (like the couch) you can't use the click option, since it requires the trackpad to be sitting on a hard surface, like a desk. So you have to live with tapping for clicking operations.
86 of 95 people found the following review helpful.
If You Are Willing to Give It a Chance By Glenn R. Howes
I've been using this as my mousing input device on my work desktop Mac for a couple of weeks. I made a conscience effort to leave my comfort zone and move my regular mice away and rely solely on the Magic Trackpad. I did this because I was unconsciously reaching way over to grab the mouse whenever I needed something done and I wasn't giving the trackpad a fair shot. Anytime you switch away from something familiar there is going to be stress. My long term preference for a pointing device is a Logitech thumb wheel style trackball, but anytime a co-worker came to use my machine I'd have to break out a mouse as their displays of awkwardness defy description. These things take time.
So I gave it a shot. What do I think?
I think the Magic Trackpad has potential if you are the kind of person that can internalize the gestures Apple provides. The 3 and 4 finger swipes especially are useful and if I did them naturally and without much thought then the trackpad would have a significant advantage over other pointing devices as I could do common actions like task switching or browsing back more quickly. This would be a skill worth mastering. I am not a master after a couple weeks, and maybe I won't get there. After all, the Magic Mouse also accepts gestures and has the precision of a mouse. It's possible that people will find the trackpad is good for some activities, such as web browsing where swiping and scrolling dominate, while reserving the mouse for activities such as file management or photo editing where precision is paramount. Nobody said you had to choose only one. Except maybe your wallet.
The addition of iPad-like inertial scrolling is a big win for Mac trackpad users, whether via a built in Macbook trackpad or this Magic Trackpad, and we can expect more gestures to originate on the iDevices and make their way onto the desktop. If you love the browsing experience on an iPad, you are building up skills you can use with this trackpad.
It helps if you are a long time Mac laptop user. I'm so conditioned to using my thumb to click in the lower portion of the surface that I never even notice there is no actual button there. Just as in the unibody series of laptops, the whole surface is a button, which is easily pressed with my thumb after my index finger has guided the cursor. Users coming from a different hardware setup might try clicking with their forefingers and find it exhausting transmitting all that energy through a single extended digit.
The actual device is classic Apple, part work of art, part extremely minimalistic functionality. My one complaint with the hardware is that because clicking goes through the little rubber feet on the bottom front, I cannot click when the trackpad is off the desktop, such as on my lap when I'm reclining. I had to enable tap clicking in the control panel, which works well enough, but I miss the firm solidity of the click. I still prefer a thumbwheel for its unparalleled utility when my feet are on the desk and the device is in my lap or on my leg.
I ended up disabling all one finger gestures except for tap to click as they were driving me crazy with unwanted drags and contextual menus.
Who will like this device: iPad users, power-user MacBook owners, those with Mac Minis attached to a TV.
Who will hate this device: people who absolutely love the precision of a mouse.
Is it worth buying now? I would say probably not. This is a hint at a future where the interaction between human and computer is more gestural, subtle and sophisticated. I don't know if I'm ready for that future.
[Update: if you watched the "Back to The Mac Keynote" on October 20, 2010, you saw that OS X 10.7 will be make much more use of gestures for navigation and control, so come summer of 2011 things will start to get advanced.]
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