Chapter 1 Setting Up Your Palm™ Tungsten™ T Handheld

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

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