ARC XT Pro on Win8 Tablet?

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Hopefully this is the right forum ... my old trust Win2k laptop that existed only to program scanners is now dead. As I look around, I am wondering if anyone knows if ARC-XT Pro will work with a Win8 Tablet that has a USB Port.

I really don't want another Windows laptop as everything else I own is Mac. I travel for work and use scanners for work, so a tablet is ideal.

My programming cable for the 346/396xt is USB, not serial to USB if that matters.

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if it says anywhere on, or in, the literature for the tablet that it is "RT" then no it will not work. At this time, RT Win8 tablets only run apps found on the windows store.
There are windows 8 tablets available that run the full operating system from several manufacturers. I use an ASuS VivoTab that runs any windows based program; while its physical size is great its performance is awful as it only has 2gig of ram! From my (limited) research most of the tablets on the market today only have 2 gig. It works but it is slow. That commercial you see with Siri talking in a windows tablets versus ipads is a little misleading, it CAN do those things but not that fast ( I think they used some creative license there).
My tablet has a micro usb in/out to standard usb. the micro end is male, the standard is female. Other full windows tablets may have the full size but I do not know.
I bought the ASuS for taking my Masters courses and wound up buying a really cheap laptop anyway because, again, the tablet is just too sluggish (and that with everything turned off at startup via msconfig)
Unless physical size is a major issue, for the same price as most full win8 tablets you can pick up a laptop or ultra portable, in fact the laptop I bought was $100.00USD less than the tablet and I added 4 additional gig of ram. Windows 8 just isn't coded to run on less than 4 even if it's loaded as a 32bit system.

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Jeff,

Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it.

RAM isn't really an issue as the only purpose I have for this Windows device is programming scanners for work. Other than that, my work is often a RAM hog and exists entirely on Mac.
 
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