Apple's Jaguar Leaps Ahead of Windows

Businessweek ^ | 8/28/2002 | Charles Haddad

[Mr. Thorne]

TWAIN, eh?

Now that, I'll try. I've got a 1200s at home.

I'm just not eager to drop cash for a scanner that is still quite functional. Really the only problem I have with it is that UMAX seems to have gone batty in the driver department recently.

First, they were charging (still can't download an upgrade for the office scanner), now they're not going to support X. And, for that matter, I was having a technical issue with the scanner at work, and they still haven't responded to my e-mails.

I don't know what's gotten into these people...

Shouldn't complain, really. Got the scanner as a roundabout way of getting photoshop. It had 4.0 bundled with it, and for a while, when 5 had just come out, if you could prove you'd just bought 4, you got a free upgrade. So I bought the scanner for a hundred, got my free upgrade to a full version of 5, and then got a bonus upgrade to 5.5, for $50.

I call it my $150 copy of Photoshop, with a free scanner.

= )

[lavaroise]

The OS is everything in many ways. If Apple can make the hardwares work together, there will be more power out there for Apple machines than anyone can imagine.