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\nWhy doesn’t this kind of device exist for a long time already?<\/p>\n
Since I have a MacBook PRO which allows using multitouch gestures on the trackpad (especially scroll and zoom) I miss these a lot when I work on a desktop Mac.<\/p>\n
The “photo” above is of course a very amateurish work of Photoshop editing my external keyboard and and the MacBook’s trackpad together.<\/p>\n
However, should I get access to a broken MacBook body with the trackpad still functional before Apple or someone else makes a real product like this, I’d probably try to create one myself.<\/p>\n
As the internal trackpad is a regular USB device (only connected internally), all I’d have to do would be connecting it to a normal USB cable, cutting the Trackpad plus the needed frame material from the MB(P) body, and putting everything together in a decent housing, probably made from a thick sheet of aluminium. I guess I’ll be better at doing that in the workshop than in photoshop\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n
Donations of broken MBP cover plates are welcome – pointers to external trackpad products that might already exist as well, of course! But remember, it’s the multi-touch I look for, not just an external trackpad.<\/p>\n
[Update: just saw this<\/a> product – altough it is for PC only and looks ugly to me, it is a step into the right direction. Still, I guess Apple’s rumoured multi-touch mouse is more likely to provide what I am looking for]<\/p>\n [Update2: Indeed, it looks like Apple just released (kind of) what I was looking for: The Magic Mouse<\/a>.]<\/p>\n [Update3 – August 2010: The Magic Mouse was a first step, but apparently they have really<\/strong> listened (to me? ;-)) and thus created the Magic Trackpad<\/a>. I already got one and yes, it’s exactly that what I wanted]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why doesn’t this kind of device exist for a long time already? Since I have a MacBook PRO which allows using multitouch gestures on the trackpad (especially scroll and zoom) I miss these a lot when I work on a desktop Mac. The “photo” above is of course a very amateurish work of Photoshop editing … Continue reading Why doesn't this exist already? [August 2010: now it does]<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-apple","tag-basteln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardturm.ch\/luz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}