Multi-touchpad on New Asus Eee Pc 900

The Eee PC 900's multi-touch trackpad

I think you will feel surprise with this news like me. The new eee pc will come with its multi-touchpad. This multi-touchpad on Asus Eee Pc 900 works like mac's touchpad.

First off, this touchpad is significantly larger than the one you'll find on the Eee PC 700 series. At first we figured the larger trackpad was due to customer complaints that the first generation Eee PC's pad was just to small. But now it looks like the new pad is designed to give you enough area to wiggle two fingers around.


There are two sets of gestures that you'll be able to perform with two fingers:

1. Move your fingers apart to zoom in on an image or document, and back together to zoom in.
2. Move both fingers up or down together to make an entire window scroll, and not just the cursor.

The first action will only work in supported applications : OpenOffice.org Writer, Impress, Adobe Reader, and the PhotoManager utility for now. But I suspect we'll see support for more software down the road. It's not clear if there's multitouch support for both the Windows and Linux versions of these programs.