I am now 100% CEP, as I believe it has the potential for a profound impact on humanity. However it does require some heavy specs which is why it is a special opt in project. For those who cannot participate, FAAH has more than enough work left to do, and no, I highly doubt IBM would ever do what UD did.

As far as running CEP2 WUs, the real issue isn't one of how fast your computer is, but can it stay up long enough to crunch all the way through in one session. If you take your computers up and down more than once per day, you will find running CEP2 WUs to be an issue on any such computer since CEP2 WUs have a well known very long step in the middle of it that doesn't checkpoint in the middle if you take your computer down. So if your little laptop is up 12-24 hrs + at a time, then you may find you can take CEP2 WUs. I happen run 9 hour sessions on my laptop during M-F, and CEP2 WUs generally take 10-13 hours on my laptop, so I don't run them during the week. But I have my laptop up 12+ hrs on the weekends, so I occasionally run CEP2 WUs during those times when I know I can take a CEP2 WU and run it all the way to completion in one session.

Otherwise I would suggest just crunching the big new batch of FAAH WUs just recently tossed into the mix. The new FAAH Vina WUs are much smaller and can probably be a nice fit for your older laptop to run on. Now FAAH still has older WUs which run much longer, but if you have to shut down after short session runs with your laptop, both FAAH WUs checkpoint nicely and can start up pretty close to where they last were with you come up again.

It looks like we still have to wait till close to fall before new projects show up (though I see SekeRob just took out some old projects from his charts, so maybe that is an heads up that new stuff is coming fairly soon).