will a good laptop with no work done mine ? and any 1 want to donate ?

[cbs355]

i want to no if my i5 windows 7 4gig ram. 2.6 ghz. 1trb hdd mine coins and how and what programs ?? also i will not say no to a donation to my address in sig

[c789]

You could mine Litecoin or other scrypt-based coins with that CPU, using the free program cpuminer, but since it's on a laptop and laptops aren't designed to handle that kind of load and heat, you really shouldn't mine on a laptop. If you absolutely had to, only mine on half of your cores by setting the "threads" flag to something like

Code:

./minerd --threads=2 --url=http://yourpool:portnumber/ --userpass=user.worker:password

...assuming you have a processor with 4 cores.

Again, I emphasize that you shouldn't do this, but that's how.

Instead, get several Erupters and a powered USB hub and plug that into your laptop...you'll be better off, and you can use the laptop for other things at the same time.

[cheff]

Best thing to do would be to buy a USB block and some ASIC USB Erupter, I've even seen some people buying the raspberry pi computers, usb blocks, and asic erupters and dedicating that to a miner.

[merlin3650]

I will be using an old sony vaio and getting some orico usb hubs and erupters. This will be how I will be starting.

[tacoman71]

Someone should post a sticky post about mining on your laptop GPU/CPU.

[b!z]

That will not be good for mining. its best to buy an asic. Don't beg for donations.

[AstralLion]

Are asics even worth it? I dont see much of a profit in it, I think I got into this too late. I wish I didn't think it was a ponzi scheme early on, woops lol. Is there anything like asic for litecoins? Is it possible to get something like an eruptor to mine alt currency's?

[marcovaldo]

Do pay for electricity?

[whiskers75]

First, fix your title:
"Will a laptop mine Bitcoins off its CPU?"

It can, but it's not recommended and you won't get anything.

[favdesu]

no and no to both of your questions.

[neordicICE]

i want to no if my i5 windows 7 4gig ram. 2.6 ghz. 1trb hdd mine coins and how and what programs ?? also i will not say no to a donation to my address in sig

What GPU it has 

[greyhawk]

I will be using an old sony vaio and getting some orico usb hubs and erupters. This will be how I will be starting.

Starting what? A fire?

[merlin3650]

Is this your way of saying it won't work? If not, then can you help me out and point me in the right direction?

[c789]

I will be using an old sony vaio and getting some orico usb hubs and erupters. This will be how I will be starting.

Yes, that should work fine since the Erupters will be doing the work. The load on the actual laptop will be very small. One of my setups is an old HP Pavilion with a 600MHz CPU, 256MB RAM, and this powers several USB Erupters on a powered hub. It runs on Crunchbang Linux...no problems.

[realsold]

what will 1 BE earn

[merlin3650]

Probably not much, considering the difficulty level. I plan on starting with a few more. Hopefully 10 or 15 to start. Then grow it from there.

[murraypaul]

what will 1 BE earn

According to the calculator here: http://wheretomine.com/ a BE with a hashrate of 335 MH/s will earn $0.30 per day mining Bitcoin.
That is at the current difficulty level, the figure will decrease each time difficulty increases (between every 10-14 days).