I want to share my experience. I consider myself a Long-Term Cruncher since I’ve been doing DC since 2002 (WCG since Dec. 2005). During all this years I’ve used all kinds of computers, from a Sun Workstation all the way to a tablet. In the early years I used mostly desktops, but since 2007-2008 I started switching to laptops, and all of them crunched for WCG, from an Atom netbook to my current Haswell i7. But I’ve come to the conclusion that the toll on mobile devices is too high. Some of those laptops have been damaged in some way for running BOINC 24/7 (I always use a very conservative profile for laptops, setting max CPU usage at low values, between 25% and 40%). After a while I decided to stop using laptops for DC. At the moment my only contribution comes from a couple of ancient Pentium 4 desktops. I know it’s not much and probably not worth the cost of electricity, but it’s the best I can comfortably do today.
With this I don’t want to discourage anyone on using laptops for crunching, but that’s the reason for my particular decline in contribution. I don’t know if I will ever buy another desktop, but until then I can only provide around 3.5 gflops of computing power to WCG (as per today’s SNURK’s WCGSIG stats).

I've been using my laptop since 2007 (mostly 24/7/365). I've found that with TThrottle installed it maintains a preset temp. Currently it's only running at 40% (it's 75F inside house atm).




edit: added "F" to temp.

Also, another suggestion:
- group mailing & social theme posting for "Country milestones" & "team milestones"...when every country gets to:
a) time milestones: 90d,180d,1y,2y,5y,10y,20y,50y,100y,200y,500y,1millenia, 2m,5m,1kilennium,2k,5k,1centrennium,2c,5c,1megaannum,2m,5m,10m,20m,50m,100m,200m,500m,1aeon,2a,5a,10
a,20a,50a,100a,200a,500a,1trillienium,...
b) points milestones: 100,200,500,1k,2k,5k,10k,20k,50k,100k,200k,500k,1m,2m,5m,10m,20m,50m,100m,200m,500m,1b,2b,5b,10b,20b
,50b,100b,200b,500b,...
c) results milestones: 10,20,50,100,200,500,1k,2k,5k,10k,20k,50k,100k,200k,500k,1m,2m,5m,10m,20m,50m,100m,200m,500m,1b,...

So that is says:
"member KLiK (or Luka Xxxxxxx) is contrinuting his computer power for finding solutions for helping cure cancer (depending on the sellected projects) and has contributed XY% to 200.000.000 (200m) points for Croatia. With this mail (social post/image) we thank KLiK for contributing his computer power to WCG & science.
Do you want to join him (link on member)?"


Of course all options for "mailings & posting on social" have to be selected...some of us are using multiple computers, so we could quickly become SPAMMERS (like on Facebook)...
But I do know that some people joined WCG 'cause of the Facebook posting on my profile that were automated...and about 1% of my friends asked me about WCG: what is it? how to participate? etc.

I have had occasion in the past to rant somewhat about fixing the points system.

Maybe the issue is not so much it is broken rather there are glitches.... ~Things that need addressing....

Now this particular one is to my advantage but it should give a feel for things that need attention to benefit us crunchers...



If 1,091.7 is the average of my rig and another I have to ask what kind of rig is claiming 1887 pts per ~10 hour task/188pts/hr vs my 15.2 pts/hr claim

Tell me again it is not broken and this is how it should be

The thing to remember about CEP2 is the even though the work units are identical, the points in CEP2 are not averaged between the two wingmen. The points are awarded based on how much work was accomplished by the machine. One machine may have finished only 2 or 3 of the jobs and the other may have completed all the jobs. I will say that for OLD Chap to get 99.58 points per hour is very good. That particular job may be an anomaly for him, but I wonder what his average points per hour is for that machine on CEP2.
Cheers