Fujitsu Scansnap ix500 Small Business Scanner 

I just got myself a used ix500 now in Late 2023 and it's still amazing ^^

As an IT guy for a 700+ person company, yes please continue this. It could really help our purchasing decisions (and yes, these scansnap scanners have worked fairly well in our experience even on terminal server environments)

I can't believe I just watched a video about a scanner, DAMNIT. I watch every video on this channel.

I dont really care what you put up, i still watch it

This is one of my all-time favorite purchases. Have had it for years, and have never regretted the purchase. Customer service is great, and it's easy to maintain.

Business side is interesting for me. It's good to see that self-employment is not just rainbows and sun shines. Even these minor things could be done effectively in small businesses.

I pretty much watch what ever you guys put up, because I'm always learning. y'all are my one stop shop for information. If I see something that I like and need a review on it. I search this channel first. I'm going to forward this vid to a friend of mine who owns a small IT company. Love it guys!

I think it's great that you and your staff makes videos that aren't just focused on consumer grade stuff. I'm pretty sure a sizeable portion of your subscribers are businessmen anyway, so your experiences with business-grade tech could open the eyes of others. Despite it being a business product, I can see a lot of consumers buying it based on your review, because it has functionality that is hard to come by in other products. I say keep the reviews coming of the tech you and your staff uses on a day to day basis.

NIce.... Thank you for this and YES keep reviewing of the business products coming. Very appreciative of the style of quick and to the point but still very informative review.

I would definitely love to see more videos like this! #happypanda

As a business owner, these sorts of solutions are ALWAYS welcome! I owe you guys a great big thanks with that NAS video. I had been using the traditional backup methods with HHD + butt loads of caddies for over 10 years. I now use a Qnap along with Dropbox, you guys have saved me a ton of time and money! Big thanks!

Hell yes, please do more of these! It's actually difficult to find trust worthy reviews on stuff like this. I've been looking for a small printer for my space. I have an absolutely HUGE printer/scanner/fax machine that's half the size of my desk currently. This looks perfect.

I will never buy one, I won't need one in the foreseeable future, yet I'm here Linus, watching your video. Fuck.

Only Linus can make me sit through an 8 minute video about a scanner.

I really like the idea of being shown what you guys use internally as part of the business side of Linus Tech Tips. More please!

I know this is super late but I love when you do reviews like this because it really helps me when I'm looking to buy products like this. Thanks!

Great video, who would have known that scanners can be interesting :D

Even if you're talking about a paperclip I'd still watch your videos

I'd love to see more business level tech reviews as well as enterprise class evaluations. Your videos and reviews have made my mind up before in both realms of Bussiness and Consumer grade products and I have yet to have to return or junk anything you have shown!

Just wanted to say that business tip videos are a plus. You do a great job on your reviews, detailing in the areas that I am usually looking for when they are not present on the sellers spec page. Keep the business videos coming!

I braced myself for buyer's remorse after bringing home the IX500, but within a couple of hours I changed my mind and all of my expectations of what a business scanner should be. 10 stars out of 5. And Linus, keep the small business stuff coming! Here's one that you might find fun and a necessary evil for all small businesses that just can't use their cell phones for everything...OnSIP VOIP and eBay refurbished VOIP phones. I outfitted 8 offices for $15/phone and $50/month. Cheers!

Damn technology is great.

It's a nice change to see both business and consumer grade tech. It just means that you are accommodating for all different types of viewers. Great Job Linus LinusTechTips

Keep Business grade things coming Linus. Always great to see really interesting things. I just installed one of these at a client's office a few months ago. Didn't have the time to play with it though.

BEST. INTRO. EVER.

Business stuff, sure. Why not?

Very interesting video Linus. I definitely like these videos of stuff around your office, keep them coming.

Keep them coming - good review- ordering this one now! Thanks for your time.

Time for a review of the ix1500!

The force brought me here.

Loved the way you did this no time waste synopsis. I have been using this scanner for 3 years, yet I managed to pick up a couple of helpful tips! Excellent Job! Would love to see more small business related stuff.

I have the ScanSnap S510M, have had it for years. I don't know how many books I've scanned, let alone documents, and these scanners just keep going and going. I remember I paid like $600 back in the day, and honestly it's one of the best things I've bought. So useful! It saves so much time, and it makes it super easy to put anything of importance on the computer. So I would recommend this product to anyone, not just business owners. I used mine to convert all my college textbooks to PDFs, so I could have them on my tablet and laptop and wouldn't have to have carry the book around. Not to mention they are all now available on the cloud so I can reference them anytime anywhere. One of many awesome things you can do with this scanner!

Why are they called Kensington locks? Was there a guy names Kensington who kept having his stuff stolen?

How about a new update on the ix500!

More videos like this would be good, it's a great way to let viewers with businesses know what else is out there, especially when someone such as myself tends to deal mostly with consumer grade products at work.

For somebody who is currently finishing school and going into the IT field, seeing these products are awesome. Keep them coming guys.

Sweet! Always like a bit of diversity.

Make videos on anything useful in the office as well as the consumer grade stuff.

I like the business reviews Linus! I work for a software company that sells quite a few scanners and our customers are always looking for recommendations and this one looks like a good contender!

Please keep doing this stuff. While the vast majority won't be interested in it for ourselves, many of us are influencers at work, home and 'other' and letting you guys do the research so we can just say "this office chair" when appropriate is really handy, if only to give us a baseline for our own research!

your printer is on the toilet?

plz use a white dropback so we wont you are at the kitchen ;-) it will look more profesional

Far and away your best review of a product so far! The vast majority of things you review are like "yeah maybe one day when I get rich" but this review is of a product that could help me in my every day life!

Love it, keep doing these kinds of reviews, it's refreshing.

I appreciate videos like these sir Linus. Please do more reviews on these office helpers more in the future!

I'd love more content along these lines, never know what I might be missing out on.

its really cool to see commercial products covered a bit as well. who knows what we will need to know or use in the future. great video

Thank you linus. When i first saw your video i can not stop n i learn a lot from you n your group. Hope you all never stop n keep going strong.

Hi LMG Team! :) I just wanted to comment here, I know this video is older at this point but the information has proven to be very valuable to me. I work for a customer who just purchased 3 of these scanners and your review has helped me very quickly come up to speed on the product. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) ..and yes I think you should keep giving us these videos on the office tools you guys use. You have a young business and I think your team has some awesome insight into many emerging ways to handle day-to-day operations. :)

Keep reviewing stuff like this. I'm an IT consultant and I spend a fair amount of time just looking for products that my clients need to do simple tasks. I do feel pretty good about myself now since I just settled on and installed this scanner at a client less than a month ago... It is a great product.

Love the business stuff. This certainly help me with deciding what to get for my own business. Thanks and keep up the great work!

I personally like seeing variety in the types of products you review. Though I may not ever need the info on this specific scanner, if the time comes when I ever do need a scanner, or need to recommend one, seeing the occasional videos like this helps keep me up to date on what features to look for, and I'd love to see videos on just about anything you're willing to review :)

I am using one of those all the time at work. I 100% support making more of those videos, people need to learn how awesome professional business grade stuff is. It changes lifes.

I appreciate these videos because if you can rely on the products to help run your business then i can rely on them at home.

Omg I love this so much. I wish you would review more scanners. I’m shopping for them right now. It’s hard to find good reviews. Thank you!

Love hearing about the business side of things as a small business owner this is a huge help.

Keep it up. I really like the new additions you have added to your product review line up. BTW love the kitchen makes a great backdrop for your reviews, Change nothing love it as is...IMO. Thanks!

Keep the business oriented reviews coming! Want more of those!

they are some amazing features. wow. Glad you did this review

I like both the business and consumer grade video's! Keep the great work up linus! (and the other staff ofcourse!)

I like these videos because they are things you researched and bought for yourself/business.

Thanks for the continuously great reviews. Nice balance of personality, entertainment and information.

Productivity ideas are great, I'm always on the look out for great tools.

Love the business oriented videos. Everybody does consumer stuff. Keep it up!

I like your Vlog style, informal videos you did at NCIX. Great work thus far, no complaints!

I like seeing things like this linus, cool to see. Keep it up!

Very helpful. Thanks for the review.

Really liked this vid, it's cool to see what businesses like yours use daily rather than just consumer tech.

I bought this scanner a couple of years ago. I have a small consulting business. The scanner is brilliant for my needs in cleaning up my office and converting the myriad paper documents, records, receipts, etc., into searchable files. So much better and faster than a flatbed scanner. Yes, much more expensive than flatbed scanner, but time saving alone justifies the purchase. And the software is good and easy to use as well. This video was good, concise and learnt a few additional things I could do but didn't know about. The video might seem like overselling, but the machine lives up to the hype for me.

Waiting for that SSD video you teased on the WAN show before buying one!! come on guys I cant wait!! :D

Keep em coming linus. it's good to see and learn about stuff we don't unusally follow.

More of the professional/very high end stuff please. I love seeing new things that are amazing (but expensive :/)

I work in enterprise document imaging, and it's always really neat to see imaging products in the wild :)

I just watched a video about a business grade scanner. . . and I loved it. Good job Linus.

Even though I don't want/need a scanner there are a couple reasons why I like these kinds of videos. 1) I like to see the new tech; both hardware and the software integration of all the different devices that it interacts with. 2) It's kind of like a mini "behind the scenes" video, which i like. With 144k views of your studio tour, I think its safe to say I'm not the only one. One other thing. I've seen some people suggest that you get a proper office... I kind of like the setup you have. I use to think "tech videos being shot on a kitchen themed set, how charming". After watching the studio tour and seeing that its a real kitchen (and bathroom) the charm factor has gone through the roof! Whether you start a "Bathroom Benchmarks" series or move to a boring old office, I'll keep watching.

I think that you should do more videos like this, I really enjoyed it!

Great machine. It is a work horse. It has glitches at time but most of the time it is load document an press the button. When a document misfeeds, it is super easy to open it up and re-feed. A useful review, please keep them coming.I bought it first by an online recommendation but I have used this review to recommend it via email, twitter and Facebook.

The price is the only thing stopping one of these being at every workstation at our office. Fantastic little machines.

Thank you. Very helpful and love the honesty and time.

Keep up with videos like this. Is always good to know a little about everything.

This information makes it easier for me to go ahead a buy one for my family needs. Thanks!

This is actually useful, been eyeing this scanner. More business stuff pls

Keep on doing stuff like this! It's so useful!

Was thinking about this for my office, great overview!

Great demo. We have one of these at our office and I didn't know it did all this cool stuff. I plan to buy one for home now! thanks!!

I'd love to have one of these. If I ever have the space and the cash. Thank for this review. I've always wanted to see one of these in action.

You have no idea how great of timing this video was. I was watching it before leaving to go to Best But and get a scanner. I really like this option.

Great video, helped me out a lot on getting started. Thanks

Love this approach... Small Business Hardware, that may help me ease up on the manual work, and automate as much of my day as possible is great! do more of these videos LinusTechTips

Love the business-stuff reviews. keep them coming.

Glad you review it, even do this is old as hell my scanner has given me a lot of miles and still up and running.... best investment for my office...

I like you post something like this because I can see something like this really increase the efficiency at our office.

I really appreciated this video because I was looking for a scanner

I like seeing all of the stuff you guys use!

Pretty much, any video you make is one I'd watch. Office Equiptment, Production Gear, PC Hardware & Accessories. Keep em coming! I'd give this video a 5 Star if I could.

No matter what you review, I'm glad you do. Maybe getting a scanner like this will help me get a business up and running.

This is like the Evernote scanner? I want one. Linus, make reviews of anything, we watch the videos because of your energy.

This was super helpful. I can always trust and honest review from Linus

Thanks so much! This helped me a LOT! I had to look up some things and replay to keep up with you, but at my age, I'm glad I'm even able to THINK about going paperless! Of course, the longer you live, the more papers you have!

We still use these things at work lol, can't believe I found an LTT video on it explaining the features. This is going right to my boss!