An interesting review. But to be honest, I was more than a little troubled by the problems they were having with Epson Scan.
I own two Epson scanners, both older units: a 3170 and a 4990. The Epson Scan software for those two scanners is quite similar, the biggest difference between the two being that the 4990 has ICE and the 3170 does not.
The writer(s) of the review had problems with image cropping, saying that Epson Scan insisted on auto-cropping the image. My old versions of Epson Scan do this if I have thumbnails selected -- or it looks like they do, at least. I can't say for certain because I've never used the thumbnail setting. I crop everything manually. So hopefully they've overlooked something, or perhaps the pre-release is still buggy.
For example, I know that there are "issues" with ES and Windows 7 RC. The version of ES for my 4990 forgets things in Win 7. In a discussion I had with a tech support guy at Epson over an unrelated issue, I mentioned this and he said that because Win 7 was so new they hadn't worked out all the details yet but they should eventually be providing patches, even for my old 4990. That was a bit of good news.
And I was also surprised at the rather poor looking results they got from their scans -- especially the negative scans. If this is typical of current tech, then I think I'll just stick with my old stuff, since both my scanners do a much better job, slides and negs, than they were managing with the 600.
Michael