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I heard Alienware laptops are rich in graphics card features. Does anyone already doing any mining with these kind of laptops. I work in marketing field and I need mining equipment with mobility. Any suggestions from your experience would be highly useful for me.

You cannot mine efficiently with any laptop.

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I am assuming that the Alienware which is a gaming laptop should have a very good video card, this way you can try to mine ethereum which is still profitable to mine if you have really a very good graphic card there. Keep in mind that this may make your laptop heat quite a bit and may even destroy it in the long run. Keep in mind both scenarios before trying to mine ethereum, but if you have no need for the laptop anymore, you can start mining ethereum from now.

Mining bitcoin with a laptop = a big no
Mining Altcoin with a laptop = a big no

You might be able to use your GPU (as stated above), but i would highly doubt that it would be good enough to make some profit... CPU mining will burn your (expensive) machine in no-time...

If you're desperate for coins, you're probably better off selling the machine for BTC in the market section.

While gaming laptops can have desktop grade GPUs, the GPU mining area for bitcoin is long gone. You need specialized hardware called ASICs.

My PC has 2 Titan X's. Easily more powerful that an alienware. But also easily less powderful than an ASIC. People use alienwares for gaming, not mining. Mining will decrease your computer's lifespan tenfold.

if it is wan of those with a pwoerful gpu, you cna try to mineearly some altcoin i t he altcoin section, do not attempt to mine bitcoin directly it's a waste of time

but altcoin mining on the other hand is quite viable with gpu

You will just burn up a nice laptop and almost certainly never find a block. You would have much better odds buying lotto tickets, although you still are extremely unlikely to profit.

Laptop mining may give you profit if u r mining Alt coin. If u want to mine bitcoin with profit, cloud mining is the only option for u.

oh,dont do that,its will hurts your alienware,its better used for playing call of duty or PES ;D honestly its better to sell your laptop and buy mining devices,its better than your alienware crash because use for mining altcoin.

yah alienware is a gaming laptop, and i will never mining with something expensive like that i have one of them and i only play games,  anyway you need a cooler for him because in less them one year whem you start to play some game and the FPS goes to high he will start (over heat)

or you can open him and make it clean , but i dont recommend !  mining with notebooks is just waste of time (and maybe you lost him)

I will focus on two parts first mining with mobility... it just does not happen. You use a asic or desktop with GPU's and it can mine well but you will not be bringing it with you to other places easily.  Yes some you could move, but it would become a pain to move many times.

And as everyone said laptops are NOT made for mining.  Even the best laptop gaming machine is like a deathtrap if mining at any kinda good intensity.  Just not enough cooling.   So you will eventually likely ruin your nice laptop if you mine it.

You should know mining takes a lot of processing power either GPU, CPU or both at the same time.
You need a lot of cooling (space) which a laptop does not have. That is what laptops were made to be the opposite of - COMPACT  :-\
It will overheat too fast and probably explode and the battery will burn your eyes and skin if your in front of it.
I know not a pretty picture.
Mining equipment weight too much because of the necessary cooling involved. I can't see anyone hauling around 100 lbs+ everywhere they go, not to efficient to say the least.

you should know how much profit you gain from mine that coin, your laptop hardware is more important and more expensive i think and if you do it you just start to burn your laptop.

Just buy mining rig and mine with it..

If you are mining some of the Altcoins, a laptop would be a great place for you to get some general experience.  If you want to really mine to get some real money, you will need to buy miners.  That is the best way to go.

He should just use his current computer to learn the basics of mining.
The only good "gaming" gear that is used for mining altcoins are AMD GPUs.
Using anything else that's not an ASIC would be absurd and yield no profits while destroying your hardware.

laptop is not intended for mining. it will only accelerate the lifespan of your laptop. for mining it is better to buy mining tools.

If your laptop has a crossfire of AMD GPU it may mine ethereum quite correctly and make you profit (if the laptop can live long enough) but you will burn it in less than 6 months in the most optimistic of the predictions, you can make more altcoins if you sell it for USD and buy altcoins, or sell it for USD and buy bitcoins.

Laptop with crossfire are hard to find due to heat.   There have been a few.... but they don't really make them with crossfire.  The one's that have 2 graphics cards on laptops tend to be a intel something for saving battery, and a gaming card that eats battery.   Alienware does have a special base for some models that can connect to a regular GPU.

But I still would not mine with it.  I would look into open air desktops if truly serious about it.

GPU bitcoin mining is pointless, you may have better chances with Ethereum which is by far more profitable now for GPU but the thing with laptops is that they have the worst heat managment. It's not worth damaging a $2k machine for 2-3 dollars a day.

You'll never get anything out of using a GPU. It's just not worth it anymore. Back in 2012 you would've been doing great but it's too late. Buying an antminer S7 at this point would most likely be really inefficient (depending on how much your electricity costs. If it's over 8 cents kWh then don't bother). Check out the mining thread here. It's just not worth mining at all anymore.

This was once true but currently look up ETH. Some are making money off GPU's again.  I hope it stay's but it's hard to say long term.  But laptop GPU.... no don't mine it just heat will be to much and you will have to RMA it eventually.

But GPU... is possible for some with cheap electricity.  I know it's hard to believe but to do some ETH ROI equiations and you will see it.

well that's wrong, i've recently earned 0.15 btc in 20 hours of mining, by mining a shitcoin, good luck doing the same thing with asic, you need a giant farm

instead i've do it with 4 gpu only, mining is still very profitable with gpu, but you need to know what to do, and modestly aside i'm an expert when it come to altcoin mining, because i'm mined tons of them in the past i know what is the best target(not always)

I agree with @Amph. For as long as there will be new altcoins coming out, GPU mining will remain profitable, I was doing it myself in 2014. But you need to put a lot of work into researching the coins before you start mining them. The basic idea is to mine as much as you can in the early stage, watch the market, sell everything at the right time and then possibly move on to another coin.

this alienware and any better laptop or Gaming pcs are for gaming not for mining you will just ruin your computer
Heat will probably be the biggest issue when the laptop is under load for that long .
Use ASIC to mine my friend , mining on a laptop will destory your alienware

no bro you cannot mine more btc as an expectation from a laptop.. !! ??? :o

no not anymore ... if u time travel back to 2009 or 2010 u might have a chance  ....

you can mine some cpu coins .. like espers or magi or hodl search them in altcoin section ... but still won't be that big reward u are looking for those cpu coins are flooded with bots that mine for people for free so your roi would be nothing like 50k satochi a day on an i7 equivalent or even less 

In the past any computer would have turned a profit in terms of electricity. But now it's nearly impossible to earn with a proper mining rig.

Don't use a laptop for mining. It will just burn up inside and you'll be left with an expensive paperweight. CPU mining on desktops isn't a good idea either unless you have a decent aftermarket cooler installed but then still, I wouldn't even try.

Desktops GPU's are sturdier designed than laptop GPU's and can handle the beating of hashing but they as well will never be thesame after a week of mining, you'll notice when playing a 3d shooter of your choice.

Amph, honestly.. those Alienware gaming notebooks are premium priced and I would never risk mining of ANY sort, even Alt on one of them. The heat will always be a problem and I would much

rather risk a desktop with some strong GPU's than going for a Alienware gaming notebook. In any way... someone buying one of those notebooks, will rather buy it for the looks and the bragging

rights.. than using it for Crypto mining. You paying more for the brand and the design than the processing power. {You can pay a lot less for the same processing with cheaper brands.}  ::)

Laptops aren't meant to be use the wore day unlike having a tower computer which you can left it on for weeks  so long as it has a good heat sink and fan.
Just assemble your own computer, find better parts and the most important your high end GPU but i doubt you can find a single block..altcoin mining is an option.

There are some GPU alt rigs setup pre built people sell.

But then again, if you know how to get a PSU and attach it to a motherboard and graphics cards, basically a computer almost. Youre more likely to save more money doing that then actually owning a alienware laptop.

if u are a fan of destroying your beautiful alienware laptop start mining altcoins on it  8)

AMPH is doing it with 4 GPU.  I'm willing to bet he is not mining on a laptop, it would shock me if he is.   Most likely it is a desktop, you can build them pretty cheap as far as core computer.  GPU's can get pricey.... all depends.

I will say as a customer at one has had a few different Alienware laptops... when I had one that needed repair it sucked.  I had paid for onsite warranty.... and I had to ship it in.  It was a pain and a half and all I did on that thing was gaming.   I would hate to go through that for a few dollars mining on one.

As these folks suggest, CPU and GPU mining are not profitable at all.
However, I am using my laptop for daily basis, and I have been running this software in the background called BitCoin Miner (Win 8 or 10).
I am getting ~27KH/s, about 4k satoshi a day. You can give that a shot just for fun.

I get it that it's just for fun. But I'm guessing that you are spending more like 400K satoshi in electricity to get those 4k satoshi BTC?
Instead I would look into another altcoin miner if you are just using it for fun. You will have higher payouts and exchange them for some mbit down the road.

Agree, only for fun. Other than that is waste of time and money.

Probably you're burning your alienware if you started bitcoin mining. Instead, you may try to mine some other altcoin, at least this may give you some bucks ;D