[filmscanners] Re: Upgrade Polaroid SS35+ to 4000?

["" <nick.grasso@hrads.com>]

BobG wrote:

>Win2k doesn't have USB2 support built in.  Most USB2 cards include their
>own Win2k drivers -- it's a lot less "foriegn" to add USB2 to Win2k than,
>say, adding the original USB to Win95.  An Adaptec card is doing fine for
>me (in the unfriendly environment of a 3 year old, Win2k, dual processor
>server).  There are plenty of other good ones.

I'll check to see if I can get USB2 support on 2K (it's built into my Intel
motherboard). I'd also like to try to run my Epson 1270 on USB to see if the
speed improves.

>Concerns about "only on XP" vs the established Win2k depend on what you
>expect to run.  For quite a while any peripheral or software developer who
>only goes for XP customers is throwing out a huge potential market.

Define 'quite a while' <g>. In the PC world 'quite a while' may be less than a
year. Seriously, I am now leaning toward upgrading to 2000 which will get me USB
support (and hopefully USB2), DirectX 8, and save me $750 on a new scanner also.
I can upgrade from NT to 2000 without installing everything from scratch.

Nick


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