i am trying to find a way to activate tapping for the touchpad on mac air in windows enviroment with no sucess. does it work for others? any advice for a driver?
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tapping on windows enviroment
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Won't work
My understanding is that - under Bootcamp - all "normal" mouse things will work EXCEPT for tap to click.
You can do things like two finger click to get a right-click etc. Of course, no multi-touch gestures should not work in Bootcamp.
Bootcamp on the MBA uses the same OS and therefore Windows drivers as other Mac systems; which doesn't support this. This is the single reason I don't have a MBP. I wish Apple would add this ONE SINGLE FEATURE.
HOWEVER,
I think it does work using Parallels and Fusion. These have come along nicely enough that other than for gaming maybe you can use these instead of Bootcamp. I tried both on the Air and liked Parallels better with Windows XP.
My understanding is that - under Bootcamp - all "normal" mouse things will work EXCEPT for tap to click.
You can do things like two finger click to get a right-click etc. Of course, no multi-touch gestures should not work in Bootcamp.
Bootcamp on the MBA uses the same OS and therefore Windows drivers as other Mac systems; which doesn't support this. This is the single reason I don't have a MBP. I wish Apple would add this ONE SINGLE FEATURE.
HOWEVER,
I think it does work using Parallels and Fusion. These have come along nicely enough that other than for gaming maybe you can use these instead of Bootcamp. I tried both on the Air and liked Parallels better with Windows XP.
Both tapping and double-tapping work just fine here in VMWare Fusion without any special setup. Haven't used Boot Camp on my Air yet...
not.
or you need to connect a mouse.
things would be different if we get a better driver for the touchpad though.
wrong!
Sure It works on Boot Camp! Leave two fingers on the touch area and click the button for a right-click. And scroll works too, with two fingers on the touch area.
Sure It works on Boot Camp! Leave two fingers on the touch area and click the button for a right-click. And scroll works too, with two fingers on the touch area.
For the record, at the time the VMs, Parallels and Fusion, were rather primitive and I could not use them for my Windows apps. Since then they have improved to the point of being usable - and they support tapping and some other gestures. I now happily own a MBP. Funny also, but I find myself hardly ever using Windows; I have gravitated nicely to OS X.
Don't even have a bootcamp partition (no tap support you know
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