Bit torrenting on a Laptop / Notebook

[wrongun92]

500mhz sony vaio laptop, i ran a bnbt tracker for 2 years, seeded on it (initial seed as well), dl with usenet, transfered to XBOX HDD, rared 4gig games (took 4 hours) was on for most of that time.

still works fine to this day and no upgrades at all, its still got the same 12gig hdd and 8meg gfx card in it.

so if that laptop can do that, then surely laptops these days can handle utorrent for a few weeks.

I wonder if my Dell laptop would be able to handle that much pressure.

[fstokebanget]

leaving for such a long time would shorten the life of your laptop. When doing a torrent the cpu, the harddrive, all of the system will work harder. But it depends on how many torrents you download, if you just upload what you have download that wouldn't need the system to work harder, but if you're downloading more than 30 torrents that would cause the system works to reach it's limit.

if you want to dedicate your laptop for torrent, I suggest you install Linux on it, it eats less resources than Windows. For Mac OS users, that would be fine, because it's basiclly a BSD system.

[orfik]

I use my laptop for everything, including torrents, and I max it out 24/7. It's been running fine for ~5 years, along with my externals. It is an IBM, though. Sure that has something to do with it.

[JROQuinn]

had my Toshiba M45-S165 for 4 years 1 gig ram, 100gig hd & been using it for everything, never turn it off but I go through 1 harddrive a year. As for torrenting, when my ratios get 1:1 on my files I transfer the ones that are from trackers that give up bonus to another desktop pc & let it seed at the minimum of 3-5 kbs