Laptop for Astrophotography

mrngbss · Post by **mrngbss** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:33 pm

As long as it can be used to do things like controlling the scope, web capture. should be good. but will the battery last long enough? What is the battery life like?

I saw a super small Sony in their gallery. but $3k+++!!

If jeremy were to use it to process his images, and work on it, then maybe it is too small...

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:38 pm

it has vga out and usb to connect to external monitor/keyboard. battery can lasts for 5hrs.
not really for jeremy, it's for me :-)
can be used as goto controller with cartes du ciel/the sky6 via ascom, webcam imaging, ccd imaging, holiday/travel pc, playing NFS carbon on MRT, doing presentation, etc, etc...

mrngbss · Post by **mrngbss** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:40 pm

Can you show a pict of what it looks like... interesting..

Post by **weixing** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:22 pm

Hi,
I think he mean the below:
http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?cid=9&id=5833
http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=4840
http://www.tabletkiosk.com/tkstore/pc/v ... ategory=35

I think should be quite suitable, but I think it'll not be cheap in Singapore.

Have a nice day.

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:54 am

The Samsung Q1 is listed for US$2000 above. The current price for this model has dropped to US$900: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 2295730831