Hands On With the Magic Trackpad [Video]

A first look at Apple's new Magic Trackpad which brings multi-touch gestures to your desktop has been posted online by several sites.

MacWorld
The available gestures - helpfully displayed on the back of the Magic Trackpad's box - are identical to those you can use on a MacBook: besides moving the cursor, you can click, right-click, double-click, click-drag, two-finger scroll, two-finger rotate, two-finger pinch and zoom, two-finger screen zoom, three-finger swipe, and four-finger swipe.


The new trackpad software also adds a couple new gesture options, both to the Magic Trackpad and to most recent Apple laptops. You can now opt for scrolling with inertia, and the three-finger gesture, which previously could be used only to navigate, to turn pages, flip through photos, or switch Safari tabs, for example, can now instead be used as a substitute for click-drag.

Engadget
It feels just like using a slightly larger version of a MacBook or MacBook Pro pad. And we mean exactly, right down to the multitouch gestures and whole-pad click. Yes, it clicks. There's also a new gesture, if you're keeping track -- a three-finger move that lets you drag windows around (very helpful), though you give up the functionality of being to navigate stuff like iPhoto galleries with a swipe (it's an option you can toggle in preferences -- you have a choice).