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I have access to 500 laptops that are still operational.
I want to strip the unit, remove all daughter boards and the LCD to reduce all excess watt usage. Just an open motherboard, wifi, ssd, and battery.
The units at this point range from 3-5 hours of battery with above average end user use so stripped down I hope to get the higher range or more. Charger is a 24 w charger.
My plan is to test the battery life and sort them. Place like life together and put them on a timer. Run on battery for 5 hours, charge full tuen off timer, run on battery - repeat. So less power usage due to battery option.

Mix of i5 and i7 so guessing 2-4 mh with enbedded graphics each.

Are there any coins that something like this would work on?
Current or upcoming?

P.S. sorry for the repost from general didnt see this one till after.

the profitability is in negative for most of the coins
even if you mine the most profitable one atm you wont make enough to even cover the electricity cost
if you are looking for new coin releases check the announcement page

Thanks.

After I posted I really dug in looking and there are not many CPU coins out there.

Even the new coins seem to be starting off at GPU levels. I think Grin needs like a GTX 1070 minimum on day one with 4gb+ ram.

I was hoping that there was a CPU one out there and with free hardware running partly on battery would cut back startup costs but no luck.

You could probably mine something like Wownero fine, there's little network hash rate and it is CPU mineable. 500 laptops at say.. 65 H/s is still a good 32.5 KH/s, 635 wow per day at 220 sats ~ $4.75/day :p not very profitable, but it is possible!

Grin is a great project, I highly hope it hasn't started price like Zcash did because at least that coin had huge price, then felt. Grin is still falling, I think it will skyrocket soon and then will fall and fall.
Is there any better option than Monero? I don't know, even with free electricity, it's very hard to profit. But I know in places where people use computers and electricity is paid by business owners, monero miners are running silently. You can't imagine but monero miners are even setup on ATMs where I am as for now.
What about HDD mining with your laptops?

You can checkout on minergate since there are coins which can be mined using up CPU power but expect profitability is impossible and besides you are
just trying to bust up your own central processing unit for prolong times.

Try Verus.

If those were Android Tablets or Phones, you could have used Electroneum Mobile Miner to "pseudo-mine" ETN which rewards more than actual mining. I'm not sure if they still tolerate multi-clients from the same user though (KYC required).
[some laptops have "Dual-boot" function which enables them to boot as Android OS].

As for using laptop batteries, this will likely waste more power than using DC since batteries tend to convert some energy into heat in the process.
Best choice: just sell them in bulk and buy the proper hardware for the Altcoin of your choice.