Macbook drag and drop different that magic trackpad ?

Dear friends,
I have been using a Magic Trackpad with my 27" iMac  for a long time and have it configured so that a slight single finger tap then enables the dragging of the current window or selection.
On my new rMBP I can achieve this only by clicking and keeping pressed and dragging (tiresome if I have to move long distances) or configure the three-finger drag I'm not used to.
Is there anyway to have the rMBP (10.8.2) behave like the Magic Trackpad ?
TIA

I don't usually use tap to click (hate it, personally), but turning it on, I can't find a way to drag a file using just taps and drags.
However, one thing that took me a while to figure out with the MBP is that you don't have to use the same finger you're dragging with to do the clicking. Despite the fact that the MBP's trackpad is multi-touch sensitive, and ordinarily using multiple fingers triggers a gesture of some kind, it seems to be smart enough that you can click with your thumb (as if there were a separate button) while dragging with your index finger, and this won't trigger a "pinch" gesture.
Dunno if that will help you or not.

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