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I wouldn't bother buying 2 machines. I recently bought a HP ProBook with an i7 and a SSD drive. It runs Stellarium with all features on as well as BackyardEos and PhD 2 without so much as breathing hard. My image processing is done with it as well on Startools, DSS, PS CS6 with my colour calibrated 24" LCD. It is so fast on start up and processing images that I feel no need to change to a different machine. When I look at software for Astro I cannot help but wonder why people bother with a Mac. The only way to get a Mac ready for astrophotography is by emulating Windows. Get a Windows laptop with an I7, min. 8GB RAM and a SSD drive and a gianormous external USB 3 external drive plus a decent colour calibrated LCD that displays Adobe RGB and that's all you need (and a Wacom graphics tablet).
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