Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 Adds Inertial Scrolling and Three-Finger Drag Gestures to Some MacBooks

Apple has released Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0. Release notes state that the update:

“includes the required software to use Magic Trackpad. The update also installs the three-finger drag gesture and inertial scrolling for Mac portable computers, as listed below. This update also installs a Trackpad System Preferences pane for configuring Magic Trackpad on Intel-based Mac desktop computers that support Mac OS X v10.6.4 and above.”

This knowledge base article lists Macs that support inertial scrolling and three-finger drag gestures.

The new release is available through Software Update or via this download page.

This update requires Mac OS X 10.6.4.

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