Hello, folks !
.... just saying "hi". I am new here.... and since yesterday I am running a test environment with GUIMiner on a Dell Laptop (3 GHZ/Double Core Intel, 2.2 GB memories + ATI Radeon HD 4500 graphic card) with 16,000 DSL. The Wallet I setup with MultiBit.
I have installed two "workers" via BitCoin.CZ ( Slush's pool ) to run some tests first... as there is rumouring lots of hipe news on the web. Yesterday the speed was terrrible slow only 2-300khashs/s... today it runs on 2x 1.5 Mhashs/s, with a single "worker's job" its between 2.9-3.2 Mhashs/s.
I just wanna ask: Is that too slow to mine any Bitcoin
![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
Its little bit scaring to see 12,000 dollar expensive mining riggs out there in the market delivered these days by Swedish startup KnCMiner. My laptop runs now since 4 hours and with both worker's jobs the result of shares is: 3 (2) + 4 (2). What doe s that mean ?? - HOpe that is not just wasting energy and creating a bad carbon footprint misusing electric power for nothin good (??).
Maybe someone can give me another tip about my IT infrastructure. At all I have 3 computers within a small computer network (Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux)... Does it make sense to run all three parallel
![Huh](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
? Or should I forget the idea to mine any Bitcoins within the next weeks ?
Tks in advance. Wish you a relaxing 3rd Advent.