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| 80120 | 2002-09-16 21:26:00 | I am looking at buying a scanner. I have read several comparisons and reviews but would be Interested in some recommendations. It will be for home use – scanning photos and general Homework stuff. Low to mid price range. Cheers Gary |
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| 80121 | 2002-09-16 22:24:00 | The thing most critical - What type and model of computer? (e.g. Apple G4-OSX, Pentium 4-Windows XP) |
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| 80122 | 2002-09-17 01:08:00 | Please dont do what a friend of mine did, and buy a real flash USB scanner, and then discover that there were no USB holes in his darling old computers case, nor could there ever be without a brain transplant..... Ultimatly the scanner will only feed data to the computer as fast as the computer can process it, so if you are running a pentium 166 or similar, i would go for the cheapest thing you could find. as above >The thing most critical - What type and model of computer? >(e.g. Apple G4-OSX, Pentium 4-Windows XP) Please post back! Chris. |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 80123 | 2002-09-17 06:33:00 | Geez sorry guys. celeron 1.0 Ghz-98SE. And yes there is a spare USB port. |
GaryK (1375) | ||
| 80124 | 2002-09-17 07:02:00 | Are you always going to have 98? Pay to ensure XP is supported in any model you buy otherwise, some are sold cheaply if they won't support it. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 80125 | 2002-09-17 07:45:00 | I gave away my last scanner because my parrelell port had fizzled, and was saddened to discover that the drivers, which were on floppy were stuffed, support didn't exsist either, No drivers on website. This is something i would look for now before i handed over the cash for a scanner. "600 ||| EP plus twain" should be avoided, as should most products that dont even have proper brand names. |
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