Using the Trackpad on the MacBook unibody

[Ray Ray]

I recently purchased a Macbook unibody and when I tried to activate
the touchpad for inputting Chinese, it does not show up as an option
in my language settings.

My OS X version is 10.5 and I tried installing the optional install
packages included with the laptop. How can I use the trackpad to
write in Chinese? Can anybody help?

[stevenp...@gmail.com]

You need to upgrade to Snow Leopard, OS 10.6. You may be able to get a
copy from Apple for 9.95 plus shipping and handling. Even the full
upgrade price is well worth it.

[Thomas H. Gewecke]

On Oct 13, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Ray Ray wrote:

>
> I recently purchased a Macbook unibody

In addition to 10.6, your machine has to have Multi-Touch. The list
is at

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3857

[mdh]

So if one bought a brand new apple laptop, is there any way to use the
multitouch keyboard to enter chinese?
(ie, are there input methods and apps that support it)?

thanks,
matt

[tokyo2ooo]

Yes, you can input hanzi directly via the Trackpad, but since a video
says more than thousand words ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLP0gf73glQ

Activate it via System Preferences -> Language and Text (first row in
the middle)
There select Input Sources and you will see Chinese - Simplified and a
checkbox for Trackpad Handwriting

Have fun