I think people who said it is slow never worked with another scanners. USB is something wonderfull. Not slow at all. Image quality is pretty good for home scanner. Of course it's not a AGFA DuoScan or some professional Umax scanner.
Package also is good.
Adobe PhotoDeluxe on CD and ICM profiles also included. I think it's much better than Mustek or something like this. Maybe Agfa SnapScan is better, but I'm not sure. Pretty quiet, good that the power supply is seperate, coz with the scanner so close to the monitor I don't get any flickering in the monitor now. The previous reviewer seems to have missed a point.