Dear Apple: stop leaving your early adopters out in the cold

Probably no one's going to see this now, but iScroll2 does this, in addition to adding scrolling and other features to many models of ibooks and powerbooks back to the G3's. And it's freeware, unlike SideTrack

if somebody could poke into:

~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

possibly by opening the terminal and typing in:
open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

and look for any settings that start with:
com.apple.trackpad that mention right clicking

or even sending me the whole file.

jkatzer over at gmail. you know, gmail.com

Or maybe you don't NEED to go out & buy each brand new thing in the world. OR, as new features appear, you could keep buying the newest of new, even if that means that Apple releases a new feature every week & you're stuck with a computer a week.
Early adopters are morons with far too much money & time on their hands.

I just got my new 15" MBP today, and was also disappointed to find that the MacBook's right-click feature wasn't enabled, even after running Software Update. However, a quick trip to SideTrack and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the MBP version was released -- today! Nice!

So, if you own a 15" MBP - do yourself a favor and go buy a copy of SideTrack. I've been a registered user for years now. It's great software. Enjoy!

If it makes you feel any better, the feature doesn't work after my 17" MBP comes back from a deep sleep.

One Word. FruitMenu. Unsanity has a Universal beta of their super program "FruitMenu".

One of the options is to click and hold to bring up the right click context menu. User selectable hold time, too.

This is the one program that I seriously missed when I purchased my MBP. Free upgrade for current users.

http://www.unsanity.com

PLEASE TAKE ALL MY STARS AWAY.

wimp.

There may be a technical reason it is missing. Perhaps there is a limitation in the track pad that made detecting the difference between Electrostatic Discharge and, say, a two-finger-right-click. I know that little solid-state plate with that strangely smooth yet reassuringly textured surface looks simple. But the electronics and software are pretty sophisticated.

And dude, if you're tired of being left out as an early adopter: stop adopting early. Or just keep buying. That works too. Sell that thing off and buy another one.

Is this related to the bug that the forthcoming update 10.4.7 fixes? I don't know, but someone was telling me about a bug related to the trackpad and trackpad scrolling.

I'm confused by this posting and some of the comments that followed.

If you were happy with the product the day it came out, happy enough to buy it, what makes you think you should be unhappy with it now?

Oh, it's the features that the new model has. Guess you should have waited for the new features to come out, then, shouldn't you?

What? You didn't know these features were going to come out and that you should have delayed your purchase? Don't you read AppleInsider? They're always guessing that there's something neat-o and cool right around the corner. That should have been your clue right there. Or recognize that Apple hasn't rested on its laurels for the past two-plus decades. That's a big clue there, too.

Of course, if you follow that line of reasoning, you'd never actually buy a computer and wouldn't be able to post your gripes.

Bill