Fair enough Martin
I was having a bit of a go at the computer selling mob that never cease to amaze me (and cost me a lot of money!).
One young guy in our I.T. department at work recently said that they make lap top P.C.'s to last 2 years max........deliberately.
Hope that when I buy a dedicated one for planetary capture, it doesn't fag out out in the middle of a 10 out of 10 seeing night while the scope is capturing a massive meteor impact on Mars or something.......