These instruments are genuinely portable, which is the whole point. Getting one onto a plane, or to a dark site two hours away, still needs a little thought about batteries and dust.
Several smart telescopes ship with a solar filter and a solar mode. The filter is what makes it safe, and there is exactly one rule about it that matters more than everything else combined.
Smart telescopes ship with adequate tripods and depend absolutely on being level. More first-night failures trace back to those two facts than to anything else.
Internal batteries are sized for a good evening in mild weather. Everything beyond that — winter, dark-sky trips, multi-hour integration — needs a plan.
These instruments are sealed and low-maintenance by design, which makes the few things that do need attention easy to neglect until they cost you a session.
