I'm also a huge fan of the two-finger right click (which, it turns out, some MacBook Pro owners still don't know about-but they should!). The two that I'm most addicted to are two-finger scroll and four-finger swipe up and down to expose the desktop. Once you have it all set up to your liking, off you go! If you are already familiar with the multitouch gestures that work on Apple's notebook line, then using them on the Magic Trackpad works exactly the same way.
The top and bottom align with the keyboard perfectly, and they match each other aesthetically. The Magic Trackpad is designed to mirror the functionality and feel of the trackpads built into Apple's MacBook Pros, but to look like a partner to Apple's Wireless Keyboard. The enclosure is made of aluminum with a thin layer of glass on the tracking surface, though you wouldn't know it from the touch. There's not much in the box besides the trackpad and a manual. My previous dalliance in trackpad-on-desktop land ended poorly, but a lot has changed in a couple decades.
2010 MACBOOK PRO TRACKPAD BLUETOOTH
When Apple introduced the Magic Trackpad, a standalone Bluetooth trackpad designed for use with Apple's desktop machines, I was cautiously optimistic. I constantly find myself trying to perform multitouch gestures-ones that only work on Apple's trackpad-on the mouse, and find myself regularly wishing for a better input device on my desktop.
I use a Magic Mouse and the multitouch trackpad that is built into my MacBook Pro. Seventeen years later, I find myself splitting my time between a 27" iMac and a 13" MacBook Pro instead of Word 6.0, I deal with MacJournal and the Ars CMS, and instead of Oregon Trail, I play various online Scrabble knockoffs. I eventually disconnected it and went back to my trusty mouse. The small surface was annoying, and the precision even worse. I soon learned that tracking around your desktop computer to play Oregon Trail and put together school projects in Microsoft Word 6.0 was Serious Business, and the trackpad wasn't cutting it for me. The useable surface area was tiny-maybe three-quarters the size of a 3.5" floppy-and clunky, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I was 12, using a Performa 600CD, my parents gave me an external trackpad accessory that connected via ADB (a moment of silence for Apple Desktop Bus, please.
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