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May 12, 2010
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I have an epson perfection 4490 scanner that came with it's own scanning software, but when I installed it, my macbook pro went from running on the intel chip most of the time to the nividia all the time, I have gfx card status in my menubar. I know it was the software because I installed & uninstalled 2 to 3 times with the same results, when uninstalled, it went back to the intel running.

are there other (preferably free) scanner softwares out there that I could use with my scanner that would not tax my mac's intel chip?

I have heard of viewscan, it is a little expensive, am a student on a budget, but I may get that if it would be lighter on my system.
 
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