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Happy to find this thread as I am on the dedicated machine path also having had one too many problems with my main laptop and usb driver clashes etc so I want a clean machine for astro work. It will run AA4 (and maybe PHD) plus ASCOM and will control the guidecam (QHY5) and mount (G11G) plus the main imaging camera (Opticstar 145m).
No image processing on the little box - and the captured images will be sent to NAS not stored locally. There would not be a high frame rate used (DSO work not planetary) with the imaging cam except during focusing - then the images is binned 4x4 so it is quite small (<200k ea). However the FITS files at full res are approx 3Mb each.
So is a EEPC/Netbook viable for this - I note the feedback re the time to download images but am not sure why that would be are USB2 speeds not available on these machines? Or is it the time it takes to display the images which is the killer? If high speed USB support is not availalbe on any of these models then I will rule them out.
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