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Originally Posted by troypiggo
@Dave[/I], no offense mate, but you haven't used one in the field. They're wonderfully compact, low power usage, and more than capable for guiding, image capture, goto as I mentioned above. I stand by that.
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I absolutely agree. The whole point is to stay SMALL. "Value for money" or power have nothing to do with it.
The AspireOne, eeePC's or any other netbook form factor machines are fantastic in the field. I have my Aspire sitting directly on my mount on a specially-designed cradle. It looks after PHD guiding for me as well as CCDsoft data capture and also has enough left over to run Voyager and talk to my ArgoNavis. Where a normal laptop is far too big physically, the Aspire is perfect.