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Originally Posted by Atmos
My imaging laptop is the equivalent of an Intel i5 and has 8GB of ram and a 1TB HD, it does perfectly fine. It’s biggest downfall is that it runs Windows
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edit: running Windows is pretty much a requirement, since there's so few astro imaging apps for OS X or GNU/Linux. Yes, I know PI runs on Linux, and you can get kstars (which is quite good actually) on GNU/Linux too. But stuff like Sky X, Maxim DL, autostakkert etc are well...very restrictive and there's no chance in hell that they'll be ported to other platforms sadly. My advice is to have a minimal of software installed on said laptop and turn off network and bluetooth. running a limited user account is a great idea too, but it's prolly too difficult to do on Windows (easy if you're on a network running AD of course). If it's just an imaging scope, you'll really only need USB...