Spent past two days setting up Acer touchscreen AIO's

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Ended up getting 4 Acer All in One 23" touchscreens at work this past week. Getting them set up for a tradeshow.
They are the Acer Aspire 5600U's. They were $999 from NewEgg for Core i3-3110m, 8gb ram, 1TB hard drive, Intel HD400 graphics, DVD burner, 23" 1080p 10 point touchscreen, Windows 8, USB 3, card reader, with wireless keyboard and mouse.


Complaints:
#1 fingerprints on the glass screen are horrible.
#2 No onscreen keyboard for classic desktop apps...so you have to switch between screen and keyboard.
#3 Right click via touch means you have to press and wait, wait and then release. So, kinda slow.
#4 Cannot swipe left and right within Immersive IE to switch between tabs.


I didn't anticipate that I would be blown away by touchscreens, and I am not.
 

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Looks like we'll have to operate like surgeons in the future - with surgical gloves. On my tablet, I see the fingerprinta only when the screen is off.
 

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Ended up getting 4 Acer All in One 23" touchscreens at work this past week. Getting them set up for a tradeshow.
They are the Acer Aspire 5600U's. They were $999 from NewEgg for Core i3-3110m, 8gb ram, 1TB hard drive, Intel HD400 graphics, DVD burner, 23" 1080p 10 point touchscreen, Windows 8, USB 3, card reader, with wireless keyboard and mouse.


Complaints:
#1 fingerprints on the glass screen are horrible.
#2 No onscreen keyboard for classic desktop apps...so you have to switch between screen and keyboard.
#3 Right click via touch means you have to press and wait, wait and then release. So, kinda slow.
#4 Cannot swipe left and right within Immersive IE to switch between tabs.


I didn't anticipate that I would be blown away by touchscreens, and I am not.

Hi there pparks1

At a tradeshow / exhibition I'm not sure what you are demoing but classic apps probably aren't obviously what these screens are good for unless in "Presentation mode" where you really need two screens -- classic computer for powerpoint say and a large external projector so I'm not sure if you've got the best tool for the job --unless it's some type of CAD / Engineering/ press /publishing software for example.

For touch screens in a brightly lit public display area with a lot of use you've probably got the wrong type of touch screen -- I'd imagine you'd need a screen with the type of touch used at an airport / railway station check in / ticket purchase terminal or even an ATM.

The newer apps should have an onscreen keyboard -- you can't blame old pre-touch screen apps not to have an onscreen keyboard -- that's hardly their fault. Now whether the screen hardware should have a built in user enabled on screen keyboard is an interesting possibility - but then the OS would have to be modified so applications would know from where to expect user input.

I have a feeling that in this particular instance you've rather got your hardware / software mix wrong for this particular event -- but in the right place for the right applications touch screens can be very effective -- and I certainly wouldn't at home use a LARGE TV monitor as a touch screen but I'm liking laptop touch screens and just swiping apps to the external monitor which I've set up as "Monitor 2".

Immersive apps are a pain though -- nothing wrong in using two monitors with apps operating in classic mode. and swiping from touch screen on laptop to large monitor.

Cheers
jimbo
 

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I have a lenovo aio and the onscreen keyboard is about the size of a very small thumb board which is useless for big fingers. I did find in the accessibility that the keyboard works fine, could you maybe use that for your older stuff? Just a thought.
 

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Have you tried a different touch screen AIO model? I haven't tried out an Acer screen, but I have on an HP AIO and the fingerprint smudging doesn't really show at all. Now imagine what kind of grimy filth is on your mouse and keyboard.... :sick:

There is an onscreen keyboard. There is a little keyboard icon on the Taskbar right in the notification tray area. Tap that and a keyboard appears on the Desktop.

The right click is kind of slow, but the Ribbon kind of eliminates having to right click so much. It usually takes a second or so open the right click context menu, you should see a translucent square appear, when it does, let go.

Swiping left and right in immersive IE is the same as hitting the back or forth buttons, if you have flip ahead enabled. Tab switching is done by swiping on the top or bottom, and then hitting the tab. It's immersive by design. It's like opening the Charms bar, swipe and tap, not much to it.
 

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