Posted June 28th, 2006 @ 11:05pm by Erik J. Barzeski
pal: Hey
me: hi
pal: Do you have a 15" PB?
me: 12
pal: I updated to 10.4.7 and I just noticed that "Use two fingers to scroll" appears in the Trackpad tab of Keyboard & Mouse.
me: on the old ones? hmm.
pal: Yea. There is nothing mentioned about it in the update. Interesting.
Interesting indeed. Can anyone else confirm? I have a 12" PowerBook, but Carey's yet to update it to 10.4.7.
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Posted 28 Jun 2006 at 11:22pm #
I have a 15" PB, and have had that option for quite some time. I'm only on 10.4.6, but I'm pretty sure that option was available when I bought the PB last fall.
Posted 28 Jun 2006 at 11:37pm #
The PB 15" that is referred to is a pre-2005 PB. It was actually manufactured in 2004 (it was the first of the 1.5 GHz). The pre-2005 PBs had an ADB track-pad that apparently could detect two-fingers but Apple had not exploited that ability to do two-finger scrolling. Apple only added two-finger scrolling with the USB track-pads that were introduced in 2005.
Posted 28 Jun 2006 at 11:58pm #
No go on my 1.33GHz 12".
Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 12:09am #
I'm using iScroll and 10.4.7 on my old 12" PB, and my System Prefs doesn't have anything about two finger scrolling in the Apple supplied parts. It might be nice if I could ditch iScroll, since it is a non-Apple thus potentially unstable .kext file, but it doesn't look like I can.
Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 1:32am #
I'm pretty sure it's added more options for scrolling for me (on a mid-2005 12" 1.5GHz PB) - namely it's god speed options. At least I don't remember seeing them before.
Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 9:07am #
Doesn't appear for me either, dec 2004 12" Powerbook 1.33Ghz.
Posted 13 Jul 2006 at 12:11pm #
i use a pb 12" 1.5Gh and since i bougth it it had that function (is part of the tiger)