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I've heard good things about the Fijuitsu ScanSnap series over the years, S1500 type not the itsy bitsy ones, and they've certainly made this type of scanner (small, autofeed, duplex, convert to full PDF with full Acrobat bundled) longer than anyone else.

Anyone heard pros and cons about them versus all the new competition? I've got a file cabinet that needs to be emptied this week, and a duplex scanner is going to be "in the mail" Monday to do it.

Thanks, Hugh. I'd seen notes mentioning the way some competitors only use one roller, which induces skew. And I think--not sure--that the similar $10,000 SCSI scanner I'd spec'd for an OCR project some ten years ago was also a Fujitsu built quite robustly.

I took the plunge and ordered one. Among other things, I want the Acro9 that's bundled with this one. I haven't had a full version of Acro in too long, and putzing around with the Reader's limits is just ng for the way I want to organize these files.

Now, I'd be tickled pink if the full Acro woul only play nice here in Vista, i.e. open quickly and stop trying to preload itself and check online for updates. (Had to put on the ghillie suit and play nasty to really get the Reader to just "shut up and play nice".)

Built like a Rolls Royce...you mean, a German reinvention of a bankrupt British sales firm? (Frightening the way the world has changed, isn't it?)

PMJI:

Acro9 is not all that bad in Vista - I installed it for a client last week on his Vista Laptop...

p.s.  You can turn Updates OFF in Tools | Preferences | General...

  Hugh

PMJI:

If you are not going to be using Bitlocker, Professional will do everything you are doing now, at a lower price than Ultimate...

FWIW...

Please, feel free to jump.

I'm not sure that I would be allowed to downgrade to Professional from Ultimate, but Bitlocker is one reason I sprung for Ultimate. I've been experimenting very cautiously with it, because I want to use it but don't want to see an accident locking me out of my own backups or recovery options. After I upgraded the internal hard drive, I re-bricked the old one and enabled Bitlocker on it, then put it in the option bay and restarted.

And while Disk Mangler showed it as a bitlocked drive...The Vista OS itself just said "Drive? What drive? There's no drive there, I see nothing."

I like that. I just still have some hesitation about the reliability, and the TPM chip on the motherboard. Apparently Vista certification calls for the TPM chip to continue working after suspend/wake transitions, and Lenono has a firmware error that generates errors from the TPM chip after suspend/wakes. When I get some time (the drive has to be physically reinstalled, mounted, screwed, not just swapped) to explore that further, I will.

But yes, I do want Bitlocker, or similar strong security. And I know there's TrueCrypt, but that's something else again to look into.

Windows 7 version changes is different than Vista.  I confirmed with an MS rep on Thursday that ine can go from Home to Pro in Windows 7 - that was NOT possible in Vista.  According to the rep, the only difference between Pro and Ultimate was Bitlocker and the difference between Home and Pro was the numver of concurrrent connections and Domain joining.  The "Media Center: stuff is in all the versions this time around...

Ah.  Here in the US, that is most likely not a strong selling point.  That's probably why MS did not mention it...

$20 difference, eh?  I had not noticed that before...

If you really want folks banging down the door, use PGP...  <smirck>