New MacBook Pro to feature “full multi-touch”

Apple’s current MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops support trackpad gestures for resizing images and even rotating them, but the latest rumours claim the Mac-maker has improvements in store for its newest laptops.

According to ZDnet’s Jason O’Grady, Apple’s next-gen MacBook Pro will “inherit full Multi-Touch capability from the iPhone and iPod touch. Multi-Touch allows you to pinch and stretch with two fingers on the trackpad to zoom in and out.”

According to his sources, the trackpad might not be made of glass either, since it has the potential to break. Instead he claims: “People that have seen it say that the new trackpad is “shiny,” rather than the flat, matte finish found on current trackpads.”

Makes sense to us. Oh, and that leaked spy shot of the new MacBook Pro’s design? O’Grady says it’s fake.

“I hear that the new MacBook Pro will forgo the drastically tapered edges from the popular MacBook Air design (as seen in the purported “leak”) and instead stick with a more traditional, pro-like, boxy design. Sources tell me that the new MBP will be thinner and as much as a half-inch narrower than the current model with less bezel around the screen.”

However, O’Grady concedes that “Apple has been known to build dozens of concept machines,” throwing fresh doubt over all of his claims.

What do you think? Would you use a multi-touch trackpad, or is it a tad gimmicky? Let us know in the comments section below.

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