What laptop to use for mining bitcoin?

[Pedro]

Can I mine Bitcoins using an HP Envy, i5 intel processor laptop, 8GB RAM, 2.60 MHz?

 

[sickpig]

sure you can without profit, though. CPU/GPU era is long gone.

regardless, you could set up a full node on such hw without problem.

 

[Marcelo Silva]

Mining with ASIC only

 

[Marcelo Silva]

compared to ASIC, other devices are slow, and will probably be long before you manage to win something.

 

[VeritasSapere]

You need a specialized miner to mine Bitcoins today, like this one:

https://www.bitmaintech.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201511170341298180m44675v0613

 

[greenuser]

You can mine with a Ras Pi if you want.

I mine with a small 10" dell notebook - 1.6Gh possessor / 2 GB ram, with Windows 7 Starter operating system running off a USB stick (memory sticks consume less power than HHDs that have a motor in them), ....

However; it is the "Bifury twin chip USB mining sticks or ASIC devices that are pluged into the notebook that do all the hard work and not the notebook itself.

Buy yourself a "GekkoScience USB Compac BTC Miner (8-16 GH/s @ 0.3w/GH)"
its a good place to start for under $60. You can plug it via USB into anything Pentium 4 / Windows XP (2 GB RAM and an interet conection) upwards and you will soon be mining small fractions of a bitcoin.

Hope this helps

 

[greenuser]

Or.... forget bitcoin, mine Ether with your CPU on here http://ethereum.cryptopool.online/

 

[Green Square]

If you are desperate to introduce your trusty old HP Envy to the world of mining ...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2984716/laptop-computers/how-to-transform-your-laptop-into-a-gaming-powerhouse-with-an-external-graphics-card.html

Go nuts and attach a GPU powerhouse ...

 

[plpatel]

How about mining with high end gaming laptop?