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Originally Posted by lazjen
Do you have a budget in mind?
I'd also suggest a desktop box if possible because it will be cheaper. If you've already got some spare bits around, you could buy a cheap new bare bones box. If you've got network connectivity (probably wireless) you could remote control it as well from your Mac (TeamViewer as an example).
If you want to do plate solving on the machine (e.g. Astrotortilla), a bit of extra grunt and reasonable disk speed (e.g. SSD) will speed up the process.
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The thing that really speeds up Astrotortilla/astrometry.net is memory, but you need enough to load all the indexes you are using at once. That means a 64bit box, a 64bit build and probably 32GB of RAM.