Natural scrolling
Natural scrolling

If you thought Apple's stubbornness was abating, the company released a fresh one last year: Natural scrolling.

In an attempt to make its new Mac OS X Lion software feel more like its popular iOS software that powers the iPad and the iPhone, Apple changed the default direction that users scroll on Mac trackpads.

Instead of scrolling the way we've learned to for years on a mouse: scroll down to drag the page down, scroll up to drag the page up, natural scrolling acts like the iPad or iPhone: scroll up to drag the page down, and scroll down to drag the page up.

Users can change that setting if they feel like their world has been turned upside-down.


By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech - Last updated January 27 2012: 7:21 AM ET
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