Speaking of those gestures, we found pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scrolling to be incredibly responsive.

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Speaking of swiping downwards, two-finger scrolling happens to be very smooth, but one finger scrolling isn't supported.

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The keyboard and trackpad feel great (we're coming from an 11-inch Core i7 MacBook Air), and two-finger scrolling works like a charm.

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The capacitive display was extremely responsive to our light finger taps and familiar multitouch gestures like two finger scrolling and pinching to zoom.

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That said, the multitouch gestures on the HP system seemed more responsive, and while two-finger scrolling on the ThinkPad works, it's jittery in comparison.

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Going through a day's photos is as easy as scrolling through the images and enlarging photos with the tap of a finger.

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There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.

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The N900 may have a "good" resistive touchscreen, but it's still a resistive touchscreen, which means it's not going to be as finger-friendly as it could be -- we were repeatedly disappointed by how much pressure was required to actuate scrolling gestures in menus, for example.

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