I started using by my 9.7” iPad with VNC Viewer and I still use it for monitoring and occasional control actions (like shutting down). However these days I run two rigs simultaneously and control most of the initial and subsequent functions from my laptop (1920x1080 native display). The laptop touchpad doesn’t have a scroll function (perhaps it does with extra key strokes that I haven’t learned yet) so some controls, like graph scaling in the guiding graphs, are not changeable with it directly, but everything else is easy to adjust and manipulate. I bought it in November 2019 which seems to have been a good moment with the new lower power series 10 Intel chips and long (10 hour) battery life.

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