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Can your MacBook Pro Do This?

Last night we played with a MacBook over at the Apple Store and discovered something interesting: while placing two fingers on the track pad you are able to do a "right-click" by pressing the trackpad button. This is a user configurable feature that can be turned off and on. I quickly tried this on the MacBook Pro 15" but it didn't work and there was nothing to turn it on in System Preferences. Oddly enough, the Macbook Pro 17" was able to do this. Perhaps this is something just for the Apple's latest models for now? Hopefully a software update will bring this feature to the MacBook Pro 15" sometime soon. I haven't seen anyone talk about this "feature" at all!


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People on the interwebs are bitching about how the newest of the new MacBooks have this cool feature where you put two fingers on the touchpad and use the lone mouse button to simulate a right click, which apparently the 15" MacBook Pro doesn't do. People [Read More]

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Very very strange. I was completly considering the 15'' i guess I may have to wait for a firmware overhaul till i completly be set on that model, argh.

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If you install iScroll2, you gain this functionality in older portables - it's called "Two-finger click" in the preferences.

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If this is a desired feature, why doesn't apple just add a right click?

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u got digged biatch

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I posted about it over on my blog this morning.

My 17" MBP can do it.

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JF... I have a 17 MBP, it doesn't do it by default, did you do anything? install iscroll2 ? anyone?

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I've been able to do this for ages on Linux.

I can right click by tapping the pad with 2 fingers and middle click by tapping with 3 fingers.

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Cool feature, but it stops working on my 17" MBP after it wakes from a Deep Sleep.

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dt - I put where to find it in my blog post.

System Prefs > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad. Here is an image of the panel on my Flickr account.

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It's possible on the 15" version in 10.4.7.

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Wow! Do you actually have 10.4.7?

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hey....isn't it called ctrl-click guys?

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On my macbook I simply enable two finger tap for "secondary click" does windows own the phrase "right click" I looked everywhere for it and I found some good info on here.

Thanks!

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just hold down the clicker and
its like right clicking...this has been innovated since the day I got my mac.

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hey.. you can also scroll using just two fingers on the trackpad! up down left and right.. amazing

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I have a Macbook Pro 15" and it works on mine, you just have to turn it on under system preferences > keyboard mouse

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I want to change Image properties of an image on a Macbook pro. How do i right click

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ITS A SETTING, GO INTO SYSTEM PREFERENCES, FOOOOL

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I just got a 13' macbook pro and i can do the right click my holding the track pad with two fingers and click on it.

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