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Old 23-02-2018, 01:46 PM
sharkbite
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Originally Posted by Fox View Post
Hi Alex, yes definitely will shooting the moon for starters.

One question about laptops, given USB 3.0, is there any minimum chipset I need to get so there’s no problem with webcam data acquisition ie. will those bargain basement $250 PC laptops listed at JB HiFi be okay, or should I aim higher? I’d hate to find that I’m not addressing the minimum specs for PC laptop properly.

Fox
chipset will not likely have much bearing for data aquisition...
I have a "craptop" that runs a dual core brazos (read: not even enough grunt for a good tablet)

What is more relevant is disk speed....i replaced the HDD with a solid state drive, prior to which the avi capture fps was a joke
Plugging my 224 into the usb3 port now works like a bewdy for planetary avi - up to 60 fps.

For long exposure (DSO) work a HDD will be fine as there is not that much data coming from the camera

I don't do any stacking or image processing on this pc - i have to copy the files off
and let my desktop do the hard work.

If you want one machine to do the lot - a $250 special ain't going to cut it
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