I know that some of the older MacBooks (2006-07) have multi-touch trackpad. Are some of those models only one or two finger touch? I am wanting to upgrade to Lion OSX and want to make sure the trackpad will support three and four finger gestures. And which is the oldest macbook model that supports multi-touch and will support all the functions on OSX LION?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Knowledge base articleon multi-touch capable machines.
Ok, I called AppleCare about this earlier too and they told me that as long as the macbook can support Lion, then it can use the muliti-touch functions. The portables listed in that article have multi-touch trackpads and will support those features. I guess my questions is the macbook that support 2 finger swipe or scrolling are not really multi-touch trackpads then, so they will not support those four finger gestures of Lion?
Sounds like the real qustion according to Apple is does your MacBook meet the requirements for Lion? Do you have at least a Core 2 Duo prcessor, 2 GB memory and 7 GB hard drive space? Of course for this purpose the real points are the cpu and ram. If you meet those you can use Lion and you should then have mult-touch capability according to Apple.
It does meet those specific requirements. So those some of the mackbook from 2006-2007, but those do not actually have a multi-touch trackpad as the 2008 models do. So Lion will run on the old macbooks from 06-07 but will not support those gestures functions?
Macbook multi-touch functionality with LION OSX
