This scanner is a work of art to look at.The software is also not too bad.The slide and negative scanning attachment is really cool.As for everything else, well..Higher resolution scans are extremely slow. I tried a scan at 600 DPI using maximum bit depth settings for text and graphics, and it took almost *20 minutes*. On the other hand, scanning at 300 DPI with the standard bit depth settings, I got a scan in 1 minute. Not bad, but still, a bit slow for 300 DPI!The quality even at 600 DPI was not what it should have been.If you want the most stylish scanner ever created to date, and don't mind really REALLY slow scans in order to get decent quality, then I'd recommend you consider getting one for yourself. But if you scan lots of documents, and need decent speed-to-quality ratios from your scanner, stay away.And maybe a future driver upgrade will fix some of these shortcomings.