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I have an old packard bell Laptop running XP. It has 960mgs Ram, 25 gig HD, 4-M cpu 2.6 gz.
Tried it out tethered, and it works okay but is very slow so...

What can I do to this thing to make it as usable as possible for tethered shooting. All I really want it for is a 15" live view screen, not storing images or editing of any kind, simply setting up and taking the shot.

What I was thinking of doing was instaling a light linux os and only instaling the Canon eos utility only, nothing else to see if tha twill make it any more useable.

Any thoughts most welcome:)
 
Visit crucial.com/uk and up the ram to at least 2GB and re-install Windows, patches, Canon software and nothing else.

Search online for DAW XP tweaks. Although this is meant for audio editing, many of the tweaks will help you cut out unnecessary background processes.
 
Is this the right info?

Packard bell nec P630011201, It has 960mgs Ram, 25 gig HD, 4-M cpu 2.6 gz.
 
Steve T said:
Is this the right info?

Packard bell nec P630011201, It has 960mgs Ram, 25 gig HD, 4-M cpu 2.6 gz.
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Not immediately obvious which model it is.

Run the memory advisor tool on the crucial website. It will tell you what memory you have and where you can take it in terms of upgrades. It will then allow you to buy the correct memory modules.
 
troutfisher said:
Seems a good idea will EOS utility work with linux?
This http://dslrcontroller.com/ works with android devices so it might give you some ideas
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I'd be tempted to try that. Nexus 7 is fairly cheap and I believe can be bought from John Lewis (avoiding TNT)

The laptop will at least have battery issues and that CPU may not be that powerful to deal with it.
 
daugirdas said:
I'd be tempted to try that. Nexus 7 is fairly cheap and I believe can be bought from John Lewis (avoiding TNT)

The laptop will at least have battery issues and that CPU may not be that powerful to deal with it.
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I use Dslr controller on a nexus 7 running a 7D on a 12 metre USB cable.

Can do night photography from a nice warm house :)
 
Thanks for the replies guys, I just found out that the EOS utility won't work with Linux so thats the end of that idea:'( bummer.
 
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