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Re: filmscanners: Laptop configuration
A minor point for future clarity:
Little b means bits. Big B means bytes.
When people write Mb (whether 11 or 12 for USB) they mean mega-bits.
"My scanner, attached to my computer using a USB 11Mb/s interface (or is it
12Mb/s? I can never remember which) has such low resolution that a
full-frame scan of a 35mm negative is only 10MB in size."
--
USB is the only popular interface that is a practical limit to scan rates.
Many scanner transports seem to run at about 1-2MB/s, some maybe as high as
5 MB/s. So the interface deserves performance consideration.
If you tend to multitask (on a personal level) USB gets dreadful when trying
any combination of unloading a memory card, scanning and/or printing.
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