Will the Acer T232HLbmidz touchscreen monitor work with a Mac Mini?

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Rusty182 Author

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Will the Acer T232HLbmidz touchscreen monitor work with a Mac Mini?

Hey!

I'm looking at buying a Mac Mini and I'd like to use it with an Acer T232HLbmidz touchscreen monitor. My questions are:

1) Will the touchscreen functionality work with windows 8 if I bootcamp it?

2) Will Mac OSX work and will it have touch functionality?

I'm not overly worried if the Mac OSX doesn't function with touch controls but I would obv want it to work as a normal non touch monitor when running OSX. My main plan is to run windows 8 the majority of the time but I would definitely need it to work flawlessly with full touch controls as a PC would.

Any help would be massively appreciated, I've googled it like mad but can't find any concrete answers :/

Thanks!:)

Russ

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 29, 2013 3:37 PM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Jul 29, 2013 4:08 PM in response to Rusty182

Have you looked at the previous discussions listed on the right side of this page under the heading "More Like This"?

You need to find OSX drivers for the touchscreen

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Rusty182 Author

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Jul 30, 2013 4:47 AM in response to lllaass

Thanks for the reply. I have read through some of the discussions on the right and I kinda guessed that I'd need drivers to use Mac OS with the touchscreen but I was wondering if the monitor will work as a normal monitor at least with Mac OS without touch but as a touchscreen with windows 8?

I could just buy a windows desktop or the monitor is available as an all in one as well but I thought it would be good to have the option to use it as a mac as well, even if its only without touch for now :)

So basically as long as it would work completely normally with full touch in windows 8 and as a normal monitor without touch in Mac OS Id be happy but wondered if this is the case?

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Answer 3

Dr.Mac.

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Jul 30, 2013 5:44 AM in response to Rusty182

Yes it will work!

T232HL bmidz Specs:

23" Full HD edge-to-edge IPS touchscreen
1920 x 1080 resolution -Full High-Definition - 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio
5ms response time, 60Hz refresh rate
250cd/m² brightness, 0.265mm pixel pitch
178º horizontal, 178º vertical viewing angles
integrated speakers - DVI - HDMI- VGA - USB 3.0.
This 10-point touch screen lets you take advantage of Windows 8 touch features
in order for your touchscreen to work, you would need to connect the USB3 cable
from the T232HL monitor to your Mac Mini.

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Answer 4

Jul 30, 2013 8:03 AM in response to Rusty182

As per my reply in one of those other discussions list on the right.

http://touch-base.com/download.asp

The Acer T232HL is listed on that site. However these (Mac) drivers are not free of charge, you can however get a trial version to let you test and confirm it works.

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Rusty182 Author

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Jul 30, 2013 9:08 AM in response to John Lockwood

I'm aware of the touchbase drivers(having read the other discussions in the right), unfortunately the price isn't really within my budget. I'm not specifically bothered about the touch function itself for Mac OS, only really for windows 8 which I assume will be fine, however I would like the monitor to at least work as a normal monitor (without touch)while using Mac OS. The acer documentation and most other documentation just talks about windows 8, I'm hoping this is primarily because windows 8 is their main market? But I can't find anywhere that says for sure that it will be mac compatible as a normal monitor :/

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Answer 6

Jul 30, 2013 9:17 AM in response to Rusty182

The way these touch screen monitors work is that they use a normal video connection for the video, and a USB connection for the touch control data.

Therefore yes they should work as a dumb (normal) monitor on the Mac (under OS X).

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Rusty182 Author

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Jul 30, 2013 9:30 AM in response to John Lockwood

That should be kool then :) I plan to primarily use it as dispatch station for my business so ill probs do all of that from windows with the touchscreen anyway and then just use the mac for occasional design work. Thanks for your help!

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Answer 8

dsu90

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Oct 11, 2013 7:00 AM in response to John Lockwood

hi,

i tried to dowload the driver of the website touch-base. I installed this one... but the touchscreen don't work. Is there a other possebility for this ??? I can open the software with driver where you can calibrate... but in the list is nog monitor... ? I connecten the hdmi and usb directly to my mac mini server..

..thanks

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