I have personally had no problems running Seti on my 1.6ghz Toshiba
wiith XP home and the CLI. I did buy a "notebook cooler" that sits
under the machine and also plugs into the wall. I got it at
www.cyberguys.com, not a plug just the facts.
And as far as quitting because old units are being re-processed,
wellll let me just say that I am not in charge of anything to do with
the project but do understand the need to recheck old data to ensure
its accuracy. Others just want to do new research only, me I just want
to help! I cannot say that processing the units is useless or not, but
I will continue until the switchover to Boinc. Then I will crunch for
Boinc. I do in fact have one machine crunching for Boinc now, my wifes
old one, a 1ghz Gateway with Win98Se, works fine, no problems.
As far as stats, here are mine:
Name (and URL)  mikey   
Results Received  28775 
Total CPU Time  25.329 years  
Average CPU Time per work unit  7 hr 42 min 39.5 sec  
Average results received per day  19.17(actually around 70)  
Last result returned: Mon Jan 26 03:13:43 2004 UTC 
Registered on: Fri Dec 17 21:04:12 1999 UTC 
SETI@home user for: 4.112 years 
Your group info: 
You belong to the group named:  Carolyn's Clinic 
Your rank: (based on current workunits received) 
Your rank out of 4854241 total users is:  3167th place.  
The number of users who have this rank:  1  
You have completed more work units than  99.935% of our users.  

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:51:05 GMT, Jim Kent <j.g.kent@markusplace.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:02:31 -0500, "Louie T Lizard" <louie@nonya.com>
wrote:

Anyone have any tips for running SETI on laptop?  

Yeah.  Don't.  The tiny fans suck in all kinds of dirt which will
eventually require cleaning.  They were never intended for 100% duty
cycle operation.  Plus, that computer you're talking about is so slow
that you're burning it up for essentially nothing.

It's especially a bad idea now because all we're doing is processing
the same damn work units over and over and over again -- see the
server status page -- the tape list hasn't changed in weeks.  Unless
they do something about putting up new units, I'm shutting down at the
end of this week.