Mining on laptop

[den.faulkner1990]

Is it real to mine on laptop for example?
can i earn some now trough one of the pool's?

[Globb0]

A laptop is not really up to much probably just wear it out faster.

[TheRealSteve]

Is it real to mine on laptop for example?
can i earn some now trough one of the pool's?

Short answer: No

Medium answer: A laptop's CPU and/or mobile GPU are not nearly powerful enough for mining Bitcoin, and rarely worth the bother mining altcoins.

Longer answer: Though you can still use them for mining Bitcoin, you'll probably spend more in electricity costs, maintenance, etc. than you ever make back.  This situation may or may not be true for altcoins, but keep in mind that compared to people who use desktop GPUs and people who use multiple cards, you're still going to be at a great disadvantage.  If you did want to try mining altcoins, check out the altcoin mining section on this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

[dubbers_brain]

the cpu power really isnt worth it like the guys say and will just burn your lappie out..
You can always try a powered port with a few antminer, block erupters or something and use your laptop for cgminer

but a lappie is pointless on its own for mining

[kanazawa]

directly from your laptop... don't do it man.. hear what our friend posted before, it's true...

[nexus99]

It depends how many TH/S of ASICs you plug into the laptop.

[kanazawa]

indeed, if you plug some ASIC miner into it, then it's fine...

[notlist3d]

Most likely would be better of with RaspberryPI or desktop if you are running 24x7 with devices connected to it.  If you are talking about mining with a laptops cpu/gpu it will be very small in earnings.

[DrG]

Right now the value of all CPU only coins has dropped so low that even if you mine with a Haswell I7 you would barely make a dime in a month.  I did mine with my laptop at the end of last year but only for a few weeks when some new coins launched.

A laptop would be fine for hosting ASICs though. My I7 uses only 20W when idle and it's nice to be able to log in easily with GUI.

[kresimirnovakovic]

If you are mining with an external ASIC that is attached to your laptop via cable, then yes. If you mean running a cpu/gpu miner on the laptop, then:
Technically, you can, but it is completely pointless at the time being. To be able to compete in the mining market, you need to get ahold of a powerful ASIC to make any profit at all (if your electricity costs you money). And even if you don't pay the electricity bill, you would still only make fractions of cents a day, or week, for that matter.

So if you are planning to mine with your laptop, don't mine bitcoin. Mine bitcoin with ASICs. You may have a small chance at making a profit mining an altcoin (most certainly not a major one -- even those with dedicated GPUs are having a hard time making a profit with them), but I would not count on that.

[jimlite]

I mine altcoins on my laptop. It has a 6770m AMD graphics card so I can get decent hashrate out of it.
Basically if your laptop is a GAMING laptop with a good graphics chip, it should handle mining just fine,
but don't expect to make much from it, just a hobby to learn or if you get free electricity why not.

[DrG]

I mine altcoins on my laptop. It has a 6770m AMD graphics card so I can get decent hashrate out of it.
Basically if your laptop is a GAMING laptop with a good graphics chip, it should handle mining just fine,
but don't expect to make much from it, just a hobby to learn or if you get free electricity why not.

You can also eat soup with a fork, but most people don't.

Learn to use the best tool for the job.  A laptop GPU is too expensive on a $/MH or $/KH basis to mine with - it doesn't warrant the risk.  CPU mining might be worth it if the coin was worth it (like early days of PTS or XPM).  If you're mining with your laptop's GPU you're trying to ride a tricycle on the Autobahn.

[leechenlua]

I think you should mine on latop
you have to do a PC with hight power VGA

[DrG]

I think you should mine on latop
you have to do a PC with hight power VGA

So that he can earn 45 cents just before he melts the board or the cheap $3 fan cooling the GPU?  Have you ever tried to change a fan on a pain in the ass laptop like a HP DV4 series.  You would rather poke your eyes out.

[ondratra]

Even if you had some serious hash rate it will dmg your notebook in long term by overheating, etc.

[monim1]

It is not a good idea to mine with a laptop. I think it will only waste your electricity bill nothing else.

[henryjames1003]

not bitcoins, man. you will get low hash/w and become bankrupt. you can try yourself with some altcoins, may be. which one? I'm exploring this now. 

[notlist3d]

not bitcoins, man. you will get low hash/w and become bankrupt. you can try yourself with some altcoins, may be. which one? I'm exploring this now. 

Sadly i think you will be disappointed with alt coin gpu/cpu mining on a laptop.   Not to mention the warnings everyone will give if the laptop is decent this is a good way to make its life shorter.

[DrG]

not bitcoins, man. you will get low hash/w and become bankrupt. you can try yourself with some altcoins, may be. which one? I'm exploring this now. 

Alt coins are only profitable if you tweak the settings correctly and buy the right model card at a good price.  Using a mobile GPU which is effectively 6x the price of a desktop GPU already nullifies any profit potential.  It's like using a Ferrari to offer people to help move a bed or a couch.

[dubbers_brain]

what you need is a raspberry pi and aload of hex's or cubes or usb miners..the world is your oyster my friend...

but if you dont wanna leave your lappie out in all this just use that instead of the pi, but the pi will be cheaper lekki wise me thinks