Tuta wrote...

all -- I have a spare laptop which isn't used too much that I thought would
be a good to dust off and use some cycles for SETI.

It is an older Dell P4 1.7 with 512MB ram.

Dropped the latest client on it and let it go ---- 17 hours later, it
completed one WU.

Is that respectable?

Using my everyday AMD 0.7 (700 mhz) with 512mb ram, it takes about 11hrs for each unit.
I use the 'seti service' with the CLI on win2k
I'm pretty sure it's XP compatible.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/SETI/SETI_Service.html