Why doesn't my MacBook Pro have this MacBook feature????

I noticed that on my new black MacBook, under the System Preferences>Trackpad menu in system prefs, there is the option to "Use two fingers" on trackpad to simulate a double-click. This is brilliant from Apple, but Why doesn't my 2.0Ghz MacBook Pro have this option in the Trackpad preferences??
My MacBook was signficantly cheaper than my MacBook pro. I wonder if we can expect this feature to be active on our MacBook Pros as well as the MacBooks. Seems like a dumb thing to leave off the high end laptop...
Please Apple, Please activate the Two Button trackpad click on our macbooks via Software Update.

I'm not sure if this will make you feel better or worse, but check out my thread about the issue here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=488829&tstart=0
To sum it up: I was in the Apple store a few days ago and I played with a 15" MBP that HAD the right-click w/ 2 fingers feature, which I thought was strange since people on here said it didn't exist on the 15" ones. Apparently, the machines in the store (or at least some of them) are running a newer build of OS X, either a newer 10.4.6 than we have access to, or a pre-release developer version of 10.4.7. Regardless, it seems 10.4.7 will add this feature, as was mentioned by a developer in that thread above who has the pre-release version of it and confirmed that his 15" now has that feature.
So:
Good news - it will work eventually, when they release 10.4.7.
Bad news - you can't get it right now unless you're an ADC member.

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