Children, children, children,
I believe you are both sort of right. I have been researching these machines and I am about to probably buy the little 7840 for about $300 because it will PC, has the papersoft software and so on.
Here's the deal if I read the manuals correct. These things can "hold" about 500-600 pages of faxes (est'ed) but still, how many of us are going to get more than even 50-200 on any given weekend and screw 'em if they can't take a joke, right? So in their memory these babies can hold a decent amount of stuff if you don't care to have a computer on and ready to recieve all the time. But Leslie is also correct in that Brother seems to want to have you assign, set a path like thing to a specific machine on the network to be the central recieiving machine.
Now I don't see either of these two as a big deal because all of us here in AC'ville have to have one good computer turned on any time we want the system and our charts to be up and running anyway, so what's the big deal???
So yes it can sort of work independent of a computer receiving and holding incoming faxes for the office, but only when the computer that has been assigned the task is one, and the path has been properly set can you actually see and recieve the fax past the memory of the AIO....
I'm going to go on line later and double check all this seeing that I am about to almost certainly make this purchase... Looks like a good inexpensive B&W Laser machine. And even though you wouldn't want to hammer away on it all day, it does have a decent duty cycle. And more importantly, if most of what you are going to do is going to be converted via transistors to some sort of a storeable and printable "E" doc like probably a pdf, then the duty cycle really doesn't come onto play half as much anymore....
PS: That little ScanSnap rocks!!! WOW! That is fast! Love it, love it, love it.
