Software compatibility issues with Touchsmart? Can anyone tell me if programs such as Quickbooks, Quicken, Microsoft Word 2007, Itunes, etc...will work with the Operating System this Touchsmart computer uses?
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Generally speaking, 64-bit Windows will run all 32-bit Windows applications without any issue. You do not need special 64-bit versions of your software. You should however, first contact the vendors for your most critical software (e.g. Intuit) to ensure that they will support you on 64-bit.
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thank you for the info Tina! I'm so scared to try. I don't even know what you mean by ice cream sandwich! I love my touchpad but l think l would love it more with android on it.
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Windows 7 is touch screen compatible by default. However you may want to get a stylus as the menus and buttons are smaller due to them being intended for a mouse.
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Is not working right for me. I have this stylu and a Dell Precision M3800 with touch screen... and is missing some touch strokes.
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Not successfully, I am in the process of doing this over the last few days... I bought QB 2011, installed in on a Windows 7 64 bit PC, that was ok. Then the the 'fun' began, tried for 3 hours myself to get my QB 2005 company data file (either the .QQB version or the .QWB) to work, each time it crashed QB 2011. Then spent 3 plus hours on the phone with tier one and two QB tech support with them getting the same problems after trying just about everything! Now they "think" the fix is that the 2005 files needs to go to their 'File Fix' expert team, this will take about 5 business days. Please note my QB 2005 and the 2005 file work perfectly fine in my QB 2005 software. Now I am waiting for 5 more days.... I can only hope this resolves the problem. I'm NOT a happy QuickBooks customers right now! Good Luck, i think you will need it....
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I'm curious to know what you chose and how you feel. I'm having this same problem right now. I bought the touchsmart, and it's on the way. But I'm thinking I should have considered imac. Every mac customer loves them, i'm told they last better, perhaps I should pay more for the less equipped machine.For us we primarily use the computer for websurfing, email, word processing, spreadsheets, and picture storage and minor editing (pics of our toddler for grandparents) We're as basic as they come. I have an ipad, she has an hp touchpad, we have an hp netbook, and we have 3 iphones in our family. So we're an eventually split apple/hp household. The question becomes what should i home base computer be? I'm curious to know what you chose and how you feel. I'm having this same problem right now. I bought the touchsmart, and it's on the way. But I'm thinking I should have considered imac. Every mac customer loves them, i'm told they last better, perhaps I should pay more for the less equipped machine.For us we primarily use the computer for websurfing, email, word processing, spreadsheets, and picture storage and minor editing (pics of our toddler for grandparents) We're as basic as they come. I have an ipad, she has an hp touchpad, we have an hp netbook, and we have 3 iphones in... » Read More I'm curious to know what you chose and how you feel. I'm having this same problem right now. I bought the touchsmart, and it's on the way. But I'm thinking I should have considered imac. Every mac customer loves them, i'm told they last better, perhaps I should pay more for the less equipped machine.For us we primarily use the computer for websurfing, email, word processing, spreadsheets, and picture storage and minor editing (pics of our toddler for grandparents) We're as basic as they come. I have an ipad, she has an hp touchpad, we have an hp netbook, and we have 3 iphones in our family. So we're an eventually split apple/hp household. The question becomes what should i home base computer be? « Show Less
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Technically, yes, it is compatible. Seems you are looking for something more full W8 featured, and, as Nevin pointed out, this device is limited in that respect. I have been able to approximate a sweeping action (touch with the thumb and sweep with the index finger - not terribly reliable in response though). I get to try out the new Touch Mouse T620 next week, so we'll see how it holds up.
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It DOES run under Windows XP although Wacom denies it. Try this driver from Wacom which worked fine with me: http://cdn.wacom.com/u/drivers/IBMPC/pro/WacomTablet_6.3.8-4.exe. However multitouch does not seem to be supported.
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I have no idea. I bought an iPod Touch to experiment with and it is a great games device. It sucks for data entry - you can't enter anywhere near as easily as with the stylus on a Palm and I have a range of folding keyboards that allow me to touch-type into my Palm.
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Maria,Re: Fujitsu SnapScan for Mac...I am in the same situation as you...Mac with Lion OS, plus Quicken for Mac. I want to take all the receipts I accumulate each week, drop each into the Fujitsu SnapScan and have them scan directly to my categories in Quicken, for succinct tax reporting.I finally reached a Fujitsu sales rep who checked & said it is possible to have SnapScan link directly to Quicken. I called Quicken and learned they are compatible with SnapScan. SnapScan is a partner with Intuit/Quicken (on their website). I am ordering the SnapScan today. I expect success!Susan Maria,Re: Fujitsu SnapScan for Mac...I am in the same situation as you...Mac with Lion OS, plus Quicken for Mac. I want to take all the receipts I accumulate each week, drop each into the Fujitsu SnapScan and have them scan directly to my categories in Quicken, for succinct tax reporting.I finally reached a Fujitsu sales rep who checked & said it is possible to have SnapScan link directly to Quicken. I called Quicken and learned they are compatible with SnapScan. SnapScan is a partner with Intuit/Quicken (on their website). I am ordering the SnapScan today. I... » Read More Maria,Re: Fujitsu SnapScan for Mac...I am in the same situation as you...Mac with Lion OS, plus Quicken for Mac. I want to take all the receipts I accumulate each week, drop each into the Fujitsu SnapScan and have them scan directly to my categories in Quicken, for succinct tax reporting.I finally reached a Fujitsu sales rep who checked & said it is possible to have SnapScan link directly to Quicken. I called Quicken and learned they are compatible with SnapScan. SnapScan is a partner with Intuit/Quicken (on their website). I am ordering the SnapScan today. I expect success!Susan « Show Less
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I think somewhere on microsoft.com there are lists of what software is compatible with each supported operating system. I use sebelius 7 with windows 7. No major problems. The only problem with Sibelius is it's owner/distributor Avid, which seems dedicated to making everything as difficult as possible for all users of everything it has anything to do with.
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I installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8 (32 bit). All of the Acer drivers seem to be compatible. It took a while to download all of them from the support website and install them, but after doing so and installing the required applications, it runs really smooth and has a very "touch friendly" interface. One thing I dislike is that my folio cover prevents some of the swipe gestures necessary for Win8. I've had a couple of random shut downs and a few program crashes (i.e. Mobipocket Reader gives me some problems [also you can't easily exit full screen mode without the keyboard dock]). The onscreen keyboard is substantially better in Win8. Some of the metro apps are either buggy or just incompatible. There is a game called Labyrinth that doesn't seem to do anything at all. The "Socializer" gets stuck in Facebook login mode forever. All that said, I will be purchasing Windows 8 as soon as it comes out for my Acer W500. It is so much easier to use than Win 7 with the touch and boots in 8 - 13 seconds.
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I purchased word and excel when I bought the computer. Apple is not famous for bundling unwanted programs with their hardware. I suspect that MS Word implies DOS, thus unlikely to work on Apple.
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I do have the full version of Acrobat and Foxit, both of which I can use on my current laptop to highlight or mark up the text. Was curious if I'll be able to do the same with the touch tablet.
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Technically, yes, it is compatible. Seems you are looking for something more full W8 featured, and, as Nevin pointed out, this device is limited in that respect. I have been able to approximate a sweeping action (touch with the thumb and sweep with the index finger - not terribly reliable in response though).I get to try out the new Touch Mouse T620 next week, so we'll see how it holds up.
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Yes you canBut with windows 7, The touch features are more like you can work without mouse and keyboard. On windows 7 do not expect the experience that of iPhone like swipes, but does basic touch operations like clicks, close, zoom can be performed.
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Hello, It is a very good computer, but it comes without software. I have used it whit windows 7 and I had to download and run all the drivers. You can download it from the intel web page directly. I suppose that the touch screen should work with Win 8, the hardware (motherboard, CPU, memories, HardDrive, ETC) is the same.