OTish; Laptops

[dennis]

It will scan at any reasonable resolution up to its optical one. I use 300, 600, 2400 most often.

[dennis]

That's terrible software, I never got the auto feeder to work with it.

[Bod]

+1

[stuart noble]

The worst thing about windows is the updating, which bloats the OS and eventually slows the machine to a crawl. Then you need to spend money upgrading RAM. A mug's game.

[dennis]

Is that why you need less RAM for the latest windows than the previous versions?

[The Medway Handyman]

Alas only 11.6".

Can you not use a USB or portable hard drive?

[The Medway Handyman]

I thought Linux was a character in Peanuts?

[Simon Brown]

No, but neither do any of the tablets either and few use a newsreader.

[Simon Brown]

Lot better to open the file in that format instead.

Open/Libre Office tends to treat them as a

[Simon Brown]

But still not as good with the latest hardware as Win, essentially because any manufacturer with even half a clue ensures it works with Win.

[Davey]

Yes, when I bothered to update my Win7 OS, it would take ages, sometimes failing to complete the installation of some part or other, requiring a repeat. Since I only use Windows for one programme that I can't get to work with Linux, I never connect to the internet while running Windows, so I don't care about updates. Simple!

[Davey]

Since I use it with a flatbed scanner, an auto feeder is pointless.

[Davey]

Maybe, I have never tried it, but xsane does fine for me.

That's what I do with xsane.

Never used the GIMP for scanning, (I didn't know you could), but it is my picture manipulation programme. And it has lots of bells and whistles, far more than I could ever learn. I particularly like the Perspective adjustment feature, Cntrl-P.

[Simon Brown]

You will with a chromebook too. Even more if they have used a conventional laptop before.

[The Natural Philosopher]

As opposed to one a day with Windows?

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, you misunderstand. I means that scanner software that tries to do what Gimp does is a waste of time IMHO.

scan with simple scan to a raw image THEN process.

[Simon Brown]

Trivially avoidable by not updating.

Not if you have enough of a clue to have plenty in the first place.

[Davey]

Ok. I use scanner software to scan, and GIMP to manipulate. Makes sense to me.

[John Rumm]

This is kind of the selling point...

A very simple to use device, that works - does all the basics, and you don't need to worry about keeping software up to date, running anti virus software etc or any of the other drudgery associated with "more capable" platforms.

[John Rumm]

Apropos of not much, did you know that if you go to

you can look stuff up on the full OED without a subscription by stuffing your library card number in instead...?