You could indeed make some money mining with your laptop last summer/autumn. Nobody recommended it but it could be done with even earning some easy profit doing so
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. There is a real possibility of overheating your laptop.
I once benched my laptop for mining and monthly estimated profit was around 15USD so something. During the same time, my 5x R9 290 rig pulled in 500USD monthly
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This is very nice but what is your recommendation for newbies like me?