Palm Tungsten T Handhelds PDAs & Smartphones User Manual


 
Chapter 1 Setting Up Your Palm™ Tungsten™ T Handheld
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System requirements
To install and operate Palm™ Desktop software, your computer system must meet
the requirements described in this section.
Minimum requirements: Windows computers
The minimum requirements for Windows computers are as follows:
IBM-compatible Pentium-class computer
One of the following operating systems:
Windows 95 with SR2 or later and Winsock2 update (requires a serial
cradle/cable, sold separately)
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and SP6 or later (requires a serial cradle/
cable— sold separately and administrator rights to install Palm Desktop
software)
–Windows 98
–Windows ME
Windows 2000 Pro (requires administrator rights to install Palm Desktop
software)
Windows XP Home or Pro (requires administrator rights to install Palm
Desktop software)
Internet Explorer 4.01 with SP2 or later
50 megabytes (MB) available hard disk space
VGA monitor or better (Palm Desktop software Quick Tour requires 256-color
video display; 16 Bit or High Color, and 800 x 600 resolution recommended)
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive (you can also download Palm Desktop software
from
www.palm.com)
.
Mouse
One available USB port or serial port (serial cradle/cable sold separately)
Minimum requirements: Mac computers
The minimum requirements for Mac computers are as follows:
Mac computer or compatible with a PowerPC processor
Mac OS 9, version 9.0 or later with 12MB available memory or Mac OS X,
version 10.1.2 or later
25MB available hard disk space
Monitor that supports screen resolution of 800 x 600 or better