June 1, 2006
Jason Snell is the Alexander Fleming of two-finger clicking
Posted Jun. 1, ’06, 3:32 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Hardware » Intel Macs
In his latest MacWord blog entry, Macworld Editor in Chief (we call him “Boss,” but not to his face) Jason Snell relates his harrowing tale of danger, suspense and intrigue. Read along as Jason performs not one, not two, but six complete data migrations, going from PowerBook G4 to MacBook Pro to MacBook to MacBook Pro to MacBook to—just writing about it makes me want to go hide under my bed.
What did Jason learn on this voyage of self-discovery, whilst staring deep into file transfer progress bars? Well, when his MacBook’s two-finger clicking didn’t work after one transfer, he realized that the MacBook and MacBook Pro, though both running 10.4.6, are using different builds. After fixing this issue via—anybody? anybody?—a complete data migration, the two-finger clicking returned.
But this wasn’t the end of the chilling story. Oh, no. It was just the beginning. Or more like the middle. Late-to-middlish.
This is how I learned that the MacBook’s clever two-finger click feature is entirely done in software, not hardware. Because when my MacBook Pro was running the version of Mac OS X 10.4.6 that ships with the MacBook, it gained that very same feature.Moral of the story: want two-finger clicking on your MacBook Pro? Find a friend with a MacBook and a lot of spare time.
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Dan, I don't know which is funnier: that I wrote 1200 words on this subject, or that you wrote 230 words describing what I wrote. :-)