[alt-photo] Re: scanner woes

[Ryuji Suzuki]

Mark,

Have you tried that?

My understanding is that, even the latest update version of Snow Leopard lacks 
proper drivers and configuration profile for the latest hardware that was 
released after Lion came out. The current MacPro, iMac and Macbook Pro's predate 
Lion, so external hard drive approach might work. Current Mac Mini and Macbook 
Air were released with Lion, and they are known to be problematic to install 
Snow Leopard (the installer packages are not the latest update, which is one 
part of the problems) and to make work at full performance under Snow Leopard 
(due to lack of proper hardware configuration data in the OS), even if the 
installation is done with another (slightly older) computer.

Tablet operation is wonderful when sitting in trains or on toilets, but I'd 
rather not bring it to my desktop environment (at least not as implemented in 
Lion). I've been using MacOS only since Tiger but this is the first time I felt 
they made it worse.

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." (Miles Davis)




Nelson Mark wrote:

> One thing you might consider with your iMac is to set up a boot drive with Snow Leopard.  I've done this with my Lion OS computer when I need to run any Legacy software and it works just fine.  If you are doing 8 x 10 and get a new Epson scanner, get the one where you can wet mount so you can avoid Newton Rings in your scans.