Can my laptop mine bitcoins?

[tspacepilot]

I set up cgminer on my little acer laptop and it was fun to do so and get it running.  However, I found that what the folks on here are saying is right, there was no profit to be made that way.  The difficulty was much too high.  I would run and run and was maybe generating a bitmil per week or something like that.  It was a good learning experience, though.  I'd recommend it if you like to compile and install code from sources.