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At ~ $150, that is an expensive solution, IMHO.
by LordHog 11y ago
At ~ $150, that is an expensive solution, IMHO.
- roel_v 11y agoDepends what you compare it against, I guess. Seemed like a bargain to me.
- wtallis 11y agoFor a third of that price, you can get a box that's also got a built-in ethernet switch and two WiFi interfaces. You're paying a ton for software convenience.
- cmurf 11y agoFor example?
- roel_v 11y agoWhat, a Raspberry Pi (which for that price doesn't have ethernet, wifi or a case for that matter), and on which I'll have to wait 5 minutes before the OCR is done that my central server takes 10 seconds to do; and which requires Windows 10 which didn't even exist when I first got my setup 2-3 years ago?
- wtallis 11y agoHell no. Just get any wireless router from the past 3-4 years and you've got USB and fast networking on a cheap box, and you can install a print server or usbip server depending on your preferences. That $150 box is probably even using the same 800MHz MIPS SoC as the $50 routers. (And what are you getting at with implying that using a RasPi instead of a turnkey solution would cause Windows-related trouble or require doing the heavy processing somewhere else than your current setup?)
- laumars 11y agoI'm really not sure where you're getting your specs from, but all Raspberry Pi's are a fraction of that price, come with ethernet, and don't require Windows 10. Plus the newer RPi's are quad-core ARM with 1GB RAM, which I'd wager is more than your device comes with. I'm not trying to dismiss your device though. I do believe that it works well. But as another commenter stated, your device is priced up because of the software convenience rather than being a "bargain" in terms of hardware specifications.
- decasteve 11y agoBeing able to pdfgrep through years of documents has been a massive time-saver for me. My ix500 paid for itself in time saved and then some. Although, my setup is less than ideal since the ix500 does not play nicely with linux. I scan to a shared folder on my Linux Desktop from Windows 7 running in VirtualBox.