Which to install first: Lion or Magic Trackpad?

Currently have Mac OS X 10.6.8 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 duo, 4 gb ram.
Have ordered Magic Trackpad. Ready to download Lion.
Which to do first?
Thanks,
Mike

I don't think it makes any difference. Lion will work just fine without a Magic TrackPad and the steps to setup the Magic TrackPad when it arrives should be the same as with Snow Leopard. As best as I remember there isn't anything special about installing Lion with a Magic TrackPad already setup except a quick video that isn't terribly useful.

Similar Messages

Lion causes Magic Trackpad scrolling to reverse?

Recent upgrade to Lion has caused the up/down scrolling on the Magic Trackpad to reverse... Two finger up movement scrolls down on screen, and two finger down movement scrolls up on screen....????? Opposite to when Snow Leopard was loaded and opposite to trackpad visual cues in System Preferences.

Yes! I noticed that, too!
You can switch it back to the trackpad behavior you're familiar with in the Trackpad preferences in System Preferences.
Just uncheck the first, top-most box, "Scroll direction: natural - Content tracks finger movement."

OS upgrade, which to install first?

I am upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard, also updating to iLife 11. Which should I install first? iLife or OS snow leopard?

Updtate your OS first and make sure you have a working system before adding in more variables.
And before you do any major system update like this back up your current system so you can revert to it (or possibly start over) if the updates cause problems.

New MacPro - which to install first RAM or HDD?

Receiving new 8-core 2.66 Mac Pro this week. Question for the Tried and True members of this forum:
I presume that it is best to power-on and "initialize" the machine in basic factory configuration (software/firmware) updates before adding in more RAM and additional HDDs.
Is there a consensus in the Forum as to which is "better?" Install additional RAM and then new HDD? Vice vera? or doesn't matter?
Is there a consensus among members as to how long a machine should be left on continually to "burn in" and mitigate Infant Mortality?
Thanks in Advance

I received my 8-core 2.93 Mac Pro last July, and I upgraded last November.
In fact I carried out all 3 upgrades at the same time; i.e. RAM, HDD, and graphics card.
Since then I have upgraded to a SSD system boot drive and a 4 x VR300 RAID 0.
So in my opinion it makes absolutely no difference at all what you upgrade first, other than to overall performance.
Presumably, you ordered your Mac Pro with the Radeon HD4870. If not, upgrading from the GT120 would show the most improvement in performance, followed by installing 16GB RAM. Apart from increased capacity you will not benefit so much from a new HDD, unless you are planning to buy more than one to set up a RAID. The most noticeable performance boost of all would be from using a SSD, especially the new OWC Mercury Extreme, as a system boot drive for your OS and applications.
For all my upgrades I disconnected the power cord, and removed all the connections from the FW800, USB2.0, ethernet, and audio ports, and discharged the static before removing the side panel. I also used a Lindy anti-static kit whilst carrying out the upgrades.
Everything was then reconnected, and, hey presto, no problems at all!
Regards,
Biltan

After upgrading to Mountain Lion my Magic Trackpad won't connect.

To be more accurate it my trackpad connects briefly (though it never actually registers any touches) then immediately disconnects and happens repeatedly. I'm using a 6 month old 11" MacBook Air.

After updating my iMac to Mountain Lion, the Trackpad wouldn't connect. Tried everything to no avail until I noticed it was connecting to the MacBook Pro across the room (which it had never done before!). The MacBook Pro was asleep, too! Disabled Bluetooth on the MacBook Pro; paired the Trackpad to the iMac again, and all's well. See if your trackpad is not trying to connect to another bluetooth computer somewhere in the vicinity.

Which file do I install first

I downloaded the two PSE!2 install files and don't know which to install first. The 1MB file is listed in properties as Adobe Extractor. I've got conflicting information from our people at the school computer store and from an Adobe Tech. Store says install the 1GB file. Adobe Tech says install the 1MB extractor first, (do not try to open the 1GB+ file, follow the instructions, and the extractor file will open and install the 1107MB Installer package. Is that how this works. Advice please. Thank you.

the smaller file should have an exe extension (the extractor) and the larger (the archive) should have a 7z extension.
put both in the same directory and click (or double click) the exe.

Magic Trackpad won't work with Magic Mouse on brand new 2011 27" i5 iMac

I have a brand new 2011 27" i5 iMac which I bought with Snow Leopard pre-loaded. Naturally, I included the new Magic Trackpad in my purchase, and though there were some problems with the device in SL - such as it going haywire without explanation - it generally worked, although battery levels were erratic (one day 80%, then an hour later 42%, then 80% again).
When I installed Lion I did a clean install after backing up to Time Machine - and a Super Dupered external drive. I had some difficulties trying to install Lion from an external flash drive so I deleted again and reinstalled SL, then reinstalled over the SL install I did (with no other software except Mac OS X 10.6.8 and other system updates to facilitate install). Rather than copying apps from my old SL drive, I downloaded fresh copies and reinstalled one by one. I don't use a lot of apps apart from Microsoft Office, browsers and iLife and have not installed any additional scripts, extensions or add-ons (like USB Overdrive). It's a pretty clean install.
Since then, although I'm generally happy with Lion, the Magic Trackpad won't work! It does work for a little while with basic gestures - mainly moving the cursor and scrolling - then it gives up the ghost and loses connectivity. I have done the following:
Disconnected and reconnected the MTP after turning it on and off. MTP works for about two minutes, goes crazy then no response.
Shut the computer down, pulled out the plug, waited two minutes, then started up again. MTP works for about two minutes, goes crazy then no response.
Run Onyx, shut down computer, then pulled out plug (see above).
Checked options in Universal Access, shut off "Ignore other devices when trackpad in use" (or whatever the option is). MTP works for about two minutes, goes crazy then no response.
Turned off the Magic Mouse. MTP works for about two minutes, goes crazy then no response.
But none of this seems to work! I know the MTP is connected because I can see it in the BT menu in the menu bar and also in System Preferences. I have noticed since upgrading that my permissions - which when I bought the computer were totally clean - now run lines and lines about "Library/Core Services" so I am unsure whether this is related. I also notice a lot of people are in the same boat as me, which makes me wonder if it's either a hardware issue or a release issue - after a week or so of totally silent running, my 2TB Hitachi HDD started up with the grumbly tum. I'd really appreciate any tips from anyone out there!

Hi, marksaner
You could try installing the latest version of the Synaptics driver. Synaptics is the company that makes the UltraNav driver and drivers for many other computer brands. This driver should have the same functionality as the UltraNav driver, so there's no worry there. You can find the driver here.
Hope it helps,
Adam
Did someone help you today? Press the star on the left to thank them with a Kudo!
If you find a post helpful and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution!" This will help the rest of the community with similar issues identify the verified solution and benefit from it.

Magic trackpad touch to click

I have an older MBP, 17", 2008 model, I believe. Since many gestures don't work with the installed trackpad, I bought the magic trackpad. The installation appeared to go well, but when I open preferences, I only see preferences for "Trackpad", which appears to be some odd combination of the installed device and the Magic Trackpad. I see nothing about "4 finger gestures". All the gestures I associate with 4 fingers from the box and apple's website, show up using 3 fingers, not 4.
Also, and my main reason for asking, is that the touch to click does not work on the Magic Trackpad. I can push down to click, but I love the touch to click feature, but it doesn't work on the Magic Trackpad. It shows "Tap to Click" selected, and that option works on the installed trackpad, but it doesn't work with the Magic Trackpad.
I'm a little miffed with it all. I bought Lion because it had all the gestures. Only to find out most of them don't work on my system. It wasn't clear that was the case when I upgraded. So this time, I specificly looked hard to see if any features would be limited on older versions of MBP's and I could find nothing, so I bought it, installed it, and now can't get some of the gestures to work or even display what's available for "4 finger gestures".
Any ideas on this? Do some of the features not work with it? Or is something setup wrong and I need to change it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

iwebdrivingmecrazy wrote:
I have checked for updates and it says everything is up to date. I just bought it from the apple store yesterday, so I would think once it installed, it would be all good, but not so much.
The touch to click doesn't work on the magic trackpad at all.
Are you saying that your prefences for the Magic trackpad shows all the 4 touch gestures? Mine only shows 3 finger gestures. Even under all the demonstrations for the additional gestures, it shows demos of 3 finger gestures only.
What am I missing?
Did you check for updates while the MT was connected?
My Trackpad Prefs show 2 options under Four Finger.
I dunno that you're missing anything, but something doesn't sound right. Try clicking on the button "Set up BT trackpad" in Trackpad prefs.
If no luck, open BT prefs and remove MT. Restart MBP and add it again.

Installing Mountain Lion onto an external hard Drive

Hi
I am running snow Leoprd and what to keep this as my main OS on my internal HD due to work, I want to install Mountain Lion onto an external Hard Drive and boot and run from an external HD as opposed to my internal
I will be likely to be using a thunderbolt connection for the external HD
Has anyone had any experience with this and any tip or faults?
I will be using Logic mainly]

Works just like installing on an internal drive. Just be sure to choose the correct target before clicking on the Install button.
If you have sufficient space on your internal hard drive you could also make a partition on it in which to install Mountain Lion. This will be faster and more convenient that an external drive.

Magic Trackpad not working properly since upgrade

Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, my Magic Trackpad hasn't been working properly. Specifically, the 4 finger gesture to switch between full-screen apps and the 2 finger gesture to open Notifiction Center stop working after awhile. From what I can find out it seems to be connected to my iMac going into sleep mode. I have a feeling this is a bug that Apple needs to fix. Besides going through Restart or into Terminal Mode, is there anything else that can be done?

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, I still have to restart the computer to do this and as soon as it goes to sleep again, I'll have the same problem.

Magic Trackpad's One Finger "Tap to Click" Not Working in Login Window?

Magic Trackpad's *One Finger* "Tap to Click" Not Working in Login Window:
All of my iMac's accounts have *One Finger* "Tap to Click" turned on (checked) in System Preferences. However, in the Login Window where the user decides which account to login to, the Magic Trackpad's clicking ability does not work even though moving the arrow does work. How do I turn on the Magic Trackpad's ability to click in the Login Window?

After accidentally pressing down on the Magic Trackpad, I realized the trackpad has tactile feedback, that is, it is a big button that can be pressed down and pop back up like old computer mice. Though this will allow the trackpad to select the account I want to open in the Login Window, it still doesn't explain why "tap to click" isn't working in the Login Window. Nevertheless, my question can be considered as answered.

Just installed Lion and the Magic TrackPad and I am having a problem with one click commands. I have to hit the pad fairly hard with one finger to get it to accept the command. Is this normal, is there another way that I am suppose to execute commands?

Just installed Lion and the Magic TrackPad and I am having a problem with one click commands. I have to hit the pad fairly hard with one finger to get it to accept the command. Is this normal, is there another way that I am suppose to execute commands?

No you just need to turn on Tap to Click. Go into System Preferences - Trackpad and click the Point to Click tab and select the first box which will say Tap to Click and you should be in business.

No Magic Trackpad taps, clicks, or combination will get me the contextual menu since I upgraded to Lion. I want to kill it.

In Snow Leopard, the magic trackpad was a thing of beauty. tap to click, swipe with three fingers to navigate, two finger tap for contextual menu. Horizontal scrolling just an evil threat, easily opted out of.
Now that I've upgraded, well, three fingers will still navigate me around Safari. And I was able to correct the truly disorienting "natural scrolling" and get the words moving back the right way again. But no matter what I do, or what I select in Preferences, I have no more right-click equivalent. I've tried deselecting and reselecting, changing the number of fingers, choosing a bottom corner click option... still no contextual menu. Instead, I get the dashboard widgets. 2 finger tap: dashboard widgets. bottom right, or left, click: dashboard widgets.
I've tried a fix some folks have posted that involves adding a line in Terminal (defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.trackpuad.enableSecondaryClick -bool YES) and then logging out and in. Many have had success with that. I have not.
As far as I can tell, I have now far fewer options and less flexibility with the trackpad in Lion than I did in Snow Leopard. More animation to tell me about them, but less functionality. That said, I'm guessing there's a bug here. Can anyone help me fix this thing? Bonus extra points if someone can tell me how to un-choose horizontal scrolling!

So, Darrall, it seems to be fixed. Mind you, this has happened through a seemingly unrelated, but hopefully replicable sequence of events. You be the judge.
I went to my other login account, which as it happens is also an admin account. Voila, the secondary click worked fine. So I returned to my primary account, where I did the following:
First, I unpaired the trackpad. then I remembered I needed something to move the mouse with, so I re-paired the magic mouse I'd had before. I thought I'd turned off the trackpad, but apparently not, so the computer re-paired it automatically. None of this had any immediate effect, as you'd imagine.
Then I went to Mission Control in Preferences. There, I deselected "Show dashboard as a space", and in the hotcorners, I deselected Mission Control from the bottom left, where it had been. I didn't replace it.
Now, my secondary click works. Uh huh. I was suspicious that it might have more to do with Mission Control and/or Dashboard than the trackpad, only because I'd beaten that horse till my arm hurt and this was all I could think of.
Never did I imagine this would get fixed short of creating a new login account and somehow copying everything - since I didn't know what was wrong, I could easily have copied the error too - so I'm very pleased and relieved. If you haven't fixed yours yet, try this. Let me know what happens!

Magic Trackpad driver did not install correctly

Hi,
I have a brand new 27" iMac with OS-X Lion and have installed Windows 7 Ultimate using BootCamp 4 per the published instructions. All works perfectly well except the Magic Trackpad which is totally unrecognised: whilst installing the bootcamp drivers in Windows I got one message saying a device driver had failed to install correctly - and in the Windows control panel I see this...
All other posts I can find relating to similar issues seem to be for BootCamp 3 and none seem to indicate this problem.
Can anyone help with this ?

UPDATE: shortly after posting this it started working! Must take a while for the Bluetooth drivers to sort themselves out....

Ive just upgraded my late 2009 macbook, and things are not working properly. First of all, when I started the computer first time after installing Mountain Lion, some message advised me that some files were impossible to install.

Ive just upgraded my late 2009 macbook, and things are not working properly. First of all, when I started the computer first time after installing Mountain Lion, some message advised me that some files were impossible to install. Once I wrote my password, and for now on, everytime I start the session, another window advise me that "Java SE 6" is missing, due that, the computer can't run some "CS5Service Manager". If I try to install it, the download ends with an error. If finally, you skip the istallation, you arrive to the dock, but the menu bar at the top of the screen doesn't show up.
In addition, my trackpad doesn't works either. I can move the arrow but i can't click anywhere, probably because the option of clicking by touching is disabeled and I can't performance a regular click.
I'll be very glad if someone know what the heck is happening with my computer. Anyway, I'm going to the genius bar next Saturday. Thx!

We're sorry.
We can't find the article you're looking for.
Please return to the Apple Support homepage.
Sigh.

Which to install first: Lion or Magic Trackpad?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for