Please advise .Can you tell me if both of these systems have touchscreen and speech recognition facilities. Thank you Sam

Both versions support touch screen (with the appropriate hardware) and speech recognition.

Thank you for your help, as I am a novice, could you tell me what the appropriate hardware would be. Thanks Sam

Sure

For touch screen support you'd need a monitor like one of these -

Touchscreen Monitors

Or, a laptop that has built in support like these -

Latitude XT2 XFR

You can find additional info here.

touchscreenlaptop.org


Speech recognition only requires a microphone and is a standard option.

Here's a link to Microsoft for additional info on that.

What can I do with Speech Recognition?

Thank you very much for your help Sam.

This is list of monitors which will support the touch feature... Monitors with Touch Support. I'm sure there are more out there.

I do not think I can afford a touchscreen at the moment. I have a new flat screen monitor.Will Windows 7 home premium 32 bit speech recognition and the magnification work okay on this monitor.Thanks Sam

Speech Recognition won't have anything to do with your monitor. According to ***this*** what you need is a microphone that you can set up for Speech Recognition.

Thank you for your help. Sam