The MacBook has been released. Mmm. Looks like the iBook/PowerBook era has ended. ~wipes away a tear~ ;) You know, if it’s going to cost more than $300 or $400 to fix my PowerBook, I may end up just going for one of these babies instead. The only caveat is that I use Adobe Creative Suite 2 extensively (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign), and I’ve heard that CS2 via Rosetta is noticeably slower. But perhaps it’s still usable. Hmm…

Anyway, I’d noticed the multi-point touchpad bit in the specs for the new MacBook, but it hadn’t quite hit me what that could mean. Greg has:

Multi-point interactions:

• Rotation - rotate objects on screen with the turn of your wrist. Rotate both fingers in a circle.
• Scale/Zoom - move your fingers out from the center or back in to the center.
• Crop a photo - mark the top left and the bottom right corners with both fingers
• Virtual Scratchpad in a music player - spin the record up and down with multiple fingers
• Resize or move an application window with both fingers
• Continuous scrolling - Let your fingers do the walking

I’d seen Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interaction Research video several months ago, but I completely forgot about it until now. This is really, really, really cool. I love Apple. :)

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