Good ideas Aragorn.. there's so many cheap laptops on ebay around the same price, it's hard to know which are the good brands and which are the bad ones.
Gary, with the laptop I have access to now, it's around 500mhz, and running k3ccd tools and the old webcam, I often get dropped frames, especially if i'm trying to capture at 20-30fps. Almost every 2nd frame was dropped. In general I didn't get any (or much less) dropped frames when I was running at 10fps.
From what i've read though, i'll probably only be wanting to run at ~10fps, so hopefully if I can get a 2nd hand laptop 500mhz or faster, I shouldn't run into the dropped frames.
Ideally I want a new one that work pays for, but i've gotta come up with some convincing reasons why i need one in place of a desktop
