The best 'off the shelf' laptop for seti@home

Author	Message
Chris Adamek Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 251 Credit: 434,772,072 RAC: 236	Message 1929920 - Posted: 14 Apr 2018, 13:49:50 UTC Why not just get a laptop with thunderbolt 3 ports? Then you can just get an external enclosure for a 1080ti or whatever your budget will allow and you wonâ€™t have cooling issues plus you can upgrade the GPU whenever something better comes out... ID: 1929920 ·

Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304	Message 1930008 - Posted: 14 Apr 2018, 22:53:29 UTC - in response to Message 1929920. ... plus you can upgrade the GPU whenever something better comes out... Or when they become almost affordable again. Grant Darwin NT ID: 1930008 ·

Brett Koski Send message Joined: 27 Aug 16 Posts: 9 Credit: 182,944,505 RAC: 93	Message 1933290 - Posted: 3 May 2018, 1:27:05 UTC Congrats on the new laptop! My laptop SETI crunching advice (I didn't see it mentioned yet in this thread): If you are able, remove the battery whenever you are running the laptop hard, gaming, or crunching for long periods of time. If you leave the battery in while running a laptop hard, in my experience, it destroys it in no time and renders the entire unit useless when you need to actually run it without the power supply attached. I destroyed a few perfectly good laptop batteries before I realized my error, and the simple fix. -BK ID: 1933290 ·

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