Laptop spec needed for tethered shooting

[taxboy]

As per the title can anyone advise the minimum spec needed please. I'm in cheapskate mode so ideally looking at something s/hand.

I don't need it for any other purpose just effectively a tethered screen so looking for the cheapest way of achieving this

[steveatesh]

What software are you going to use for the tethering, Capture One? Lightroom? Other?

Surely your minimum laptop spec will be governed by that software?

[SCEtoAUX]

I tether my Nikons to an old IBM Thinkpad laptop. It's an early gen i5 machine with 8GB RAM. Only cost me about £100.00 six years ago. I chucked in an SSD and those things are as cheap as chips as well now.

Also, could I recommend one of these as a USB extension cable:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00B2HP3A2/

Works brilliantly.