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"Long-time" Tiger feature on Intel Macs
Authored by: lujo on Fri, Jan 18 2008 at 7:52PM PST
The two-fingers + click method for a secondary-click has been around since shortly after the intro of the Intel Macs (2006). It was originally only available on the 17" MacBook Pros, but a subsequent update to Tiger opened the feature to all Intel-based laptops. I don't remember ever hearing about this as an OS-based feature for PowerMac-based Macs. Some third-party utilities have provided similar funtionality (SideTrack) though.

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"Long-time" Tiger feature on Intel Macs
Authored by: wm on Sat, Jan 19 2008 at 2:51AM PST
Leopard added this for PPC Macs like my 12" PowerBook (1.5 GHz, so it's always had Apple-supported two-finger scrolling).

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"Long-time" Tiger feature on Intel Macs
Authored by: ms_t_rie on Sat, Jan 19 2008 at 6:25AM PST
iScroll2 provides that ability on Panther on my Powerbook, I didn't realize that Tiger didn't provide it for PPC. Really never thought the processor would make a difference for a function that is trackpad based :)

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"Long-time" Tiger feature on Intel Macs
Authored by: vincentvw on Thu, Jan 24 2008 at 10:00AM PST
It didn't make a difference. It's just that Apple had patented the "technology" preventing anyone from releasing driver-hack.

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