USB impressions

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by furfurfur, Aug 11, 2006.

  1. furfurfur

    furfurfur Member

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    I am running RC2 and have just decided to re-visit USB support, and from my personal experience it's working quite well. I can print to my Samsung ML-1510 laser printer, and scanning works with my (fairly ancient) Agfa Snapscan e26.

    The only real issue I have is that it's pretty darn slow. Scanning a page in Win2003 running on my 2.16Ghz MPB with 2GB (384MB allocated to VM) takes about 90 seconds, whereas the same operation takes about 20-30 seconds on my other Win2003 VM (running virtualised on a 3Ghz P4 Linux Box under VMWare).

    As an aside, pretty much the only reason I use windows for personal things (as opposed to work) is for ScanSoft's PaperPort software for storing documents. I would love to find an OS X equivalent but haven't been able to so far.

    Cheers
    James
     
  2. Godrifle

    Godrifle Member

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    Why, pray tell, are you running RC2 instead of the GA release, or the new beta version? Both contain USB improvements, I believe.
     
  3. n4khq

    n4khq Member

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    This is true but the speed is probable due to no USB 2 support as of the beta release.
     

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