Which laptop?

[Gazabone]

Hi, looking for advice on what will both run the Celestron firmware manager and recognise that a mount is attached via a usb. I have a desktop and laptop, neither of which will run the CFM program despite upgrading to the latest version of Java as the web site suggests. I also have a MacBook which runs the CFM program fine but won't recognise when the mount is connected to it. A touch frustrating!

If anyone can suggest a good laptop/windows/OSM/ anything that would work, I'd be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

[MarsG76]

Hi, any laptop that's a "Pentium 4" spec or better will run the Celestron software as well as the other control software for astronomy hardware.

Personally I designated a Sony VAIO CoreDuo laptop with only 2Gb RAM running windows Vista premium as my astronomy only laptop. All I done was replace the internal HDD with a SSD drive and the laptop work beautifully. I'm easily autoguiding using it, while running other software such as APT while capturing deep sky via DSLR or iCap and/or FireCapture when planet imaging. I also run the Celestron NexRemote software. Switching between all of the software is smooth and I have no problem.

Most of the time I do my processing on mum desktop PC but I have been stacking using it also and yes it's slower but still very usable.

[damnut]

There have been issues with Celestron s\w not running on AMD processor based systems.

[jimbo747]

Whats your budget? I bought myself (well, my company has) a HP spectre x360 (£799). Best laptop I've ever used, much prefer it to the £1200 dell xps 13 my other director bought herself