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Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air
macrumors.com - 3/9/2009
Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air
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When Apple introduced the new MacBooks, MacBook Airs, and MacBook Pros in October, they also introduced a new four-finger multi-touch trackpad gesture that allowed users to easily switch between applications (swipe left/right) or invoke Exposé (swipe...
support.apple.com - 3/3/2009
MacBook: About Battery Updater 1.4
— support.apple.com — Release date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:42:00 GMT (more) MacBook: About Battery Updater 1.4

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MacBook Modder: F**k It, I'm Putting a Screen in the Apple [Mods]
i.gizmodo.com - 3/13/2009
MacBook Modder: F**k It, I'm Putting a Screen in the Apple [Mods]
— i.gizmodo.com — Reaching what is probably the final frontier of novelty last-gen MacBook mods , Macmods member EdsJunk has... put a full-function color LCD inside the Apple logo and hooked it up as a secondary display. His post is minimal, so we don't know how he ... (more) MacBook Modder: F**k It, I'm Putting a Screen in the ...

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Are the New 17-Inch MacBook Pros Plagued by Faulty Graphics Cards? [MacBook Pro]
i.gizmodo.com - 3/6/2009
Are the New 17-Inch MacBook Pros Plagued by Faulty Graphics Cards? [MacBook Pro]
— i.gizmodo.com — This is all too familiar . The Apple support forums are lit up by complaints that the... new 17-inch MacBook Pros are plagued by faulty Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics cards . Complaints run something like this: When the more powerful Geforce 9600M is ... (more) Are the New 17-Inch MacBook Pros Plagued by Faulty ...

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Macsimum News:  ‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for March 9

Infinite Loop:  New Snow Leopard builds add 4-finger gestures to MacBook Air

HardMac.com:  Snow Leopard to Bring Support for 4 Fingers Gesture on MacBook Air

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‘Macsimum Recommended Reading’ for March 9
Macsimum News — ... “Snow Leopard to Add 4-Finger Multi-Touch Gestures to Original MacBook Air”— Mac Rumors “Apple retail keeps it green during fire sale: In its latest effort to positively impact the environment, Apple’s retail stores have initiated a new “no plastic bags” policy to cut back on the amount of unnecessary packaging it dumps in the hands of shoppers.”— ...

New Snow Leopard builds add 4-finger gestures to MacBook Air
Infinite Loop — ... The upcoming release of Snow Leopard had plenty of developer features, but Apple hasn't forgotten users, either. As noticed by AppleInsider, one new feature that has been added to Snow Leopard recently is support for the four-finger swipe gestures on older Apple notebooks that currently only include gestures with three or fewer fingers. ...

Snow Leopard to Bring Support for 4 Fingers Gesture on MacBook Air
HardMac.com — According to Macrumors and confirming an information released one month ago), the last build of Snow Leopard will bring support for 4 fingers gesture on the first MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Penryn. Indeed, the trackpad on those models were already ready to support such technology. For those of you who would like to make use of it without having to wait still Snow Leopard is released, the procedure are described hereafter for the premiers MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Penryn. [translation by ...

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