What laptop to use?

[UnderTheRain]

Any mid range laptop with a decent a mount of ram you can get a pretty decent laptop new from £350 these days

[DaveS]

Regarding backlit keys. I remember a mini review in AN of a red-LED goosneck lamp that plugs into a usb port.

[tich]

Surely any laptop would do, the speed of the usb would would more likely be the limiting factor, but usb2.0 works fine!

My Toshiba with the Sempron processor wouldn't run PHD with my QHY5L as it just used to lock up & freeze, I tried the same with a Celeron processor & it did exactly the same & both had plenty of memory & reasonably fast processors running win7. They both worked fine running the SPC so I asked the guys at QHY & it would seem that he camera wasn't compatible with the chipset.

[nephilim]

APT is fine with win7, at least for me

Ah, thats good to know, means that when we go off to a dark site I can take my girlfriends laptop as the battery on mine is shot

[largie003]

If you are getting a non touch screen then I would choose one with Windows 7 rather than Windows 8 as 8 can be a little fiddly when using with a mouse/trackpad and keyboard which ain't great in the dark! Also if your budget can stretch to it replace the primary hard drive with a solid state hard drive, this will allow your battery life to be increased, it will run faster and should lower the opereating tempreture of the device slightly. Also solid state is tougher when it comes to dew!

[northcanadian]

I used to use a small notebook but found the image screen a bit small for focussing. Now have a 17" Toshiba....image is larger and easier on my old eyeballs...lol

Cheers

[northcanadian]

I used to use a small notebook but found the image screen a bit small for focussing. Now have a 17" Toshiba....image is larger and easier on my old eyeballs...lol

Cheers

[DaveS]

I'm trying to get hold of a new Win 7 laptop without much success.

I may be able to buy one through the school's procurment system as we use exclusivly Win 7 but it's likely to cost over the odds.

A naughty word against win 8

[sparkyjon]

Got my 8.9" Hercules ecafe specifically for imaging £40 on ebay. 160gb hd, 1.8ghz processor 4 usb ports. Running xp. It was cheap cause the battery is duff but i run it off my powerpack.. Full of imaging software and wifi handy while waiting for cool down. I got a red acrylic sheet cut it to size and use velcro it .this all fits in an aluminium flight case with my power leads and EP.

Don't worry too much about os,a big hdd and fairly fast cpu will make a good little imaging machine.