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hey guys jon rettinger from john for lakers calm here one of the most common questions I've been getting about the new macbook is in regards to the trackpad so I'm going to walk you through the trackpad and what it can do and give you my review on it and also show you the options that are in the control panel for it right guys see you at the end bye alright guys look here is the new macbook it's a 2.4 gigahertz and there is a topic of the video the trackpad as you guys can see it's it's relatively flush to the computer and it is the biggest track that Apple has ever used to give you guys a size comparison here here is a wireless mighty mouse you can see it's just a little bit smaller and here is an iphone 3g for size comparisons now the most glaring thing you'll notice about the trackpad other than its monster size is the omission of any recognizable mouse buttons and Apple solve this by actually making the whole track pad itself a button and the concept seems like it'd be very difficult to get used to and hard to adapt but in fact it's actually very quick and took me about five minutes get used to it now I don't notice any difference at all the whole trackpad like I said is actually a button you click anywhere you'd like and just like a simple left click the trackpad is coated with all right it's actually made of glass and it's coated with a plastic a material actually makes it feel similar to the old version but there's much less friction on your finger which actually makes for nice and easy scrolling if you'd like to right click which most people do like to do you can just use two fingers and click and you get your right click options I'll show you guys that looks like so I'm tapping two fingers on the trackpad and there's my right click nice and easy like that go away here trackpad is very nice I haven't had any issues with it as you're typing it really does become second nature you just tap your thumb right we're used to where the old mouse buttons or as you're scrolling it's a simple tap I really noticed no difference whatsoever you get a lot of options for customizing found in the system preferences and I'll walk you guys all that and show you what that looks like but the multi-touch works fantastically scrolling is nice and easy two finger scrolling flows very quickly across the track pad with the new reduced friction it's so big you can scroll down or left or right with pages much easier so guys the trackpad really is a non-issue for me it works just as well as all the previous other versions but now you get a lot more customization options so I think the trackpad has been a big winner for Apple I'm going to walk you guys through the Preferences here that you have alright guys so I'm going to go ahead and open up the system preferences and the system preferences here looks very similar to most other macs and what we have here is a trackpad button so go ahead and click that and I'll walk you through some of the options here so here you're one finger options as you can see one finger tap the click turn that on and off and i'll still give you a demonstration what that does tap and clicks you can see in the video playing right there dragging you can click double click actually and you can drag your finger around drag lock you can select a folder or an image and move it around secondary click you can use the right corner to secondary click or you can just tap it with two fingers here are some to thinker options two finger scrolling as you've seen on the other multi-touch capable trackpads to figure rotating just like you would anticipate and just was found on the old macbook airs and the outgoing MacBook Pros pitch open and closed similar to the iphone the other multi touch devices screen zoom actually hold down the control key plays two fingers up scroll down and it zooms the entire content of your desktop secondary tap like I mentioned earlier two fingers right click three finger navigation swagg three fingers across so you can scroll through images or documents and the four fingers are actually one of the things that I've been finding most useful surprisingly swipe down for expose just very useful swipe left to right and you actually get an application switcher and you can close them right from there so let's go back swipe down for expose and if you swipe up it will close expose if you swipe up again as you can see right there it clears your desktop which is a very handy feature so these are the options that you have here in the trackpad in addition you can control your your tracking speed your double-click speed and the scrolling speed but these are the multi-touch options found on the new macbooks and the new macbook airs so guys in conclusion I think the trackpad is really welcome addition to the new line of macbook and macbook pros it takes what the old ones did well and really adds upon it with some new multi-touch gestures and the lack of a button I really don't notice any difference one way or another whether it would be there or not so surprisingly it's a nice non-issue you guys please feel free to leave questions down below be sure to check out the website at wwu or lakers calm if you want exclusive update and content be sure to follow me on twitter at ww twitter.com / john for lakers alright guys hope you enjoyed I'll talk to you soon