Touch screen for a Mac Mini?

The answer is YES. MAC's do work with all touch screen monitors once you download the free drivers.

I have a Mac Mini and a Mac book pro both of which are connect to the same Acer Touch Screen Monitor. I am using it as write this to you.All you need to do is download the free drivers from www.touch-base.com. The basic touch drivers are free. I also purchase the mac gesture drivers for $109 USD and they work great. You can even activate the on screen keyboard in the mac accessibility settings which allows you to have a touch screen keyboard. I also run Parallels with windows 8.1 and when I switch from Mac to PC, both touch screens work perfect. The support staff at touch-base is great.

Brendan

I have a similar need, but probably less complicated. I just want to hook my Mac mini up to a touchscreen monitor that has the proper drivers to work with the latest OSX. I want something that can stand abuse and doesn't have compatibility problems, preferably something that comes in multiple sizes like 15 inch, 17, 21 etc. I see the guy who has the youtube video on installing the mini + touchscreen in his kitchen used an iiyama prolite. they are expensive! is it necessary to purchase such an expensive one? i'm also interested in those who know of a POS system (e.g. the type used in restaurants, made for constant abuse) that works with the latest mac os. thanks for any help. G

I suspect most touch screens will not come with Mac drivers however the following site is for a company that produces third-party drivers including for the Mac.

See http://www.touch-base.com/

Note: Some screens only support two-finger guestures e.g. pinch-to-zoom but not three or four finger guestures. You might want to check with the maker of the screen since OS X supports and uses 3 and 4 finger commands.

Erik - I'm sorry I cannot help you. I remember hearing about a touchscreen that can handle track-pad-like gestures, but I'm not sure if that is what you want, and will have to dig around to find the link.

In the meantime, can you help me? You stated you found a few compatible touchscreen monitors. Can you point me in the right direction for a fairly seamless approach to touchscreen+mac mini? I don't want to get into a situation where I have to have a custom driver built, if possible.

Thanks,

G

Hi Jonesevan,

Any chance you could share what exact model of screen you're using?

Also you say you haven't got multi-touch - is that because the screen you're using cannot support multi-touch, or because the driver doesn't support it?

Thanks!

Hi Tom,

I'm using an 4 wire overlay that was purchased off eBay. No brand name associated with it. I believe the 4 wire models can support dual touch, by the driver descriptions that are available for Windows, but Mac drivers don't.

Here is what I got.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/17-inch-USB-Panel-Kit-Set-Add-Touch-Screen-Function-/ 180662769175?pt=AU_comp_monitor&hash=item2a10571617&_uhb=1

And drivers.
http://home.eeti.com.tw/DriverDownload.html

Hope this helps.

Evan

Hi,

I've been using a IIyama 17 inch screen for the last 5 years (comes with the eGalax touch driver).

I'm using it for POS in a retail store.

My recent quad mac mini i7 is way more responsive then the old 2008 model and that is important with touch.

I want to upgrade to a better touch screen, I send an e-mail to ELO since they seem to be market leaders but no reply. Anyone using a mac mini with a 19-22 inch touch screen in a POS enviorment ?

My current 17 screen at 1280x1024 is a little too small for just one specicic field in my POS software.

Tom

Just in case anyone else finds this thread...

After a lot of research I settled on the PQ Labs G4S Multi-Touch Screen 32" (http://multitouch.com/product.html) which is an overlay, not a screen per se... and a Samsung ME32C LED LFD (http://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/digital-signage/LH32MECPLGA/ZA). Both are available in other sizes. Samsung provide their own overlay solution - previously by Nexio, currently by AFO - but the G4S provides dual- or multi-touch for OSX. Some gestures work, some may not, I only have the dual-touch version as that is all I needed. Currently using it on Mountain Lion 10.8.5.

J

Hi Brendan,

I'm wondering if you might be able to help me get my Acer T242HN touch screen working correctly with Gestures? I have purchased the licenced version of the base drivers and they work fine with simple point and click. When I try and install the Gestures.app, it doesn't seem to install and run at all.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Neil

Hi Spindleweb,

Try these links.

Gesture support under Mac OS X is documented here: http://touch-base.com/documentation/Gestures.htm#_Mac_OS_X

TUIO Server support under Mac OS X is documented here: http://touch-base.com/documentation/TUIO.htm#_Mac_OS_X

I ran into some trouble when setting these up myself. I slightly remeber that you had to open the zip file and install the Gestures app. Gestures is a purchased add-on. Then you had to move it into the Utilities folder with the base-drivers and make sure the TUIO Server is running which is part of the zip file. You can adjust the setting for the Gestures from the icons on the top of your screen that show things that are running. One icon should be a little hand pointing and the other should be a black and white Tui shaped like a circle.

I also had to put some add in called Greasemonkey into Firefox to make the scrolling functtion work better online. I am not that technical with computers. You can also email Dave from Touch-Base at

dave@touch-base.com

The Gestures will work once you get it setup. Dave was very helpful in getting everything setup correctly. Good-Luck. Let me know how you make out.

I bought the Viewsonic TD2220. I can get the cursor to follow my finger, but tapping does nothing. I have tried to use drivers from touch-base.com and elo with no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Oddly enough I have exactly the same question, and for the same reasons (so it's not as out of the norm as you thought)...

Anyone have any ideas?

John,

Thank you. I've emailed the company to get a quote. I'm concernd about cost - we'll see.

G