I get it, Magic Trackpad. You don’t want any gaudy cords messing up the smooth lines of your industrial design. But some of us prefer USB power over batteries – and we will not be denied.
The $99 Apple Magic Trackpad is nothing new. The Wacom Bamboo Touch has offered the same multitouch functionality for almost a year. Its true relevance is in what it heralds: The end of Mac OS X as we know it.
The Magic Trackpad has just showed up and Apple has already issued a driver update for it. The same update also enables inertial scrolling and three-finger dragging on MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops with multitouch trackpads.
Apple desktops have touchpads now too. The new Magic Trackpad gives Mac Pro and iMac owners multitouch powers, gestures and Bluetooth connectivity.
Over at Daring Fireball, the well-informed John Gruber suggests that we might see a new 27-inch, 16:9 cinema display tomorrow, perhaps in concert with faster iMacs and refreshed Mac Pros. Update: And perhaps, even more tantalisingly, with Apple’s elusive Magic Trackpad?
The wedge-shaped magic trackpad leaked back in June just got its model number matched up with a device on the FCC site, proving that it’s real and it should be coming within a month or so.
The last couple of years, the internet has been swept up in rumours of an external multitouch touchpad peripheral being announced by Apple, and today – on the dawn of WWDC – photos showing just that have been leaked.
