{"id":918,"date":"2008-04-13T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2008-04-20T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T01:31:36","slug":"newsletter-437-preview-tell-me-apple-why-did-you-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2008\/04\/newsletter-437-preview-tell-me-apple-why-did-you-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #437 Preview: Tell Me Apple: Why Did You Do That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You most likely know that the newest iteration of the MacBook Pro uses Intel&#8217;s powerful and energy-saving Penryn processors. You also know that some of the touchscreen tricks from the iPhone and MacBook AIr have been transplanted to the touchpads of the MacBook and MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Adding the Multi-Touch feature allows you to, for example, pinch your fingers to reduce text size in a supported application and to expand them &#8212; all on the touchpad of course &#8212; to increase the size. Yes, I suppose the touchpad, which has not changed in size, may be a mite small to really exploit such a feature, but you just know that it&#8217;ll grow larger perhaps in the next product refresh.<\/p>\n<p>That would seem to be sufficient to provide a decent upgrade to continue to move lots and lots of Mac note-books into homes and businesses, and Apple could have stopped there.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears that Apple wouldn&#8217;t give up making changes. 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