Comments on: How long does battery last while doing tethered time lapse?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:02:06 +0000

The mini laptops that are being sold for around the $300 mark new should be more than enough. They tend to have a screen that is around 8″ that could be a bit of a drawback.

I use a low end Toshiba satellite which cost around $400 a year ago with rebates etc. Processor is only a celleron 1.5gh and the RAM 1.5gb. This runs CC and Lightroom 2 with no problems at all.

bit more than 70 Euros (to be honest I’m surprised PII’s are fetching anything at all.

By: raymond

raymond — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:00:33 +0000

Probably ok but of course I can’t be sure. I use it on a IBM X31 which is a 1.3-GHz/400-MHz Pentium M CPU and it is ok.

By: Ringo

Ringo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:47:55 +0000

Well, I thought of buying a used one on the bay. For example, you get a PII with 400MHz for 50-70 Euros. That’s a lot less than a D70s.
Do you think CC is usable on a notebook like this?

By: raymond

raymond — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy a D70s than a laptop?

By: Ringo

Ringo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:10:12 +0000

Hi Raymond!

First of all, thanks a lot for Camera Control!
Since I own a D40x and would like to do TLP outdoors, I thought of buying a notebook to do the triggering. A cheap one would do, cause I won’t do anything else requiring much cpu power. But that’s the question: What are the minimum system requirements for CC? Perhaps you could ask your readers about what (low end) hardware they are using? This would be cool. Thanks in advance!