I suggest taking the battery out for crunching...or it will be worthless within a year or two from the heat (batteries #1 enemy). Speaking from personal experience. Other than that try to place it on a surface with unrestricted airflow to the bottom (like a metal grating or something) and you shouldn't have any issues running 24/7 with it.

OK, I'm pumped. I came home from work to find that the new computer had received 4 GPU beta test WUs. I bumped them to the head of the line, and two have completed and uploaded. I knew this APU's GPU was supposed to be OpenCL capable and double-precision; now the OpenCL part is already confirmed. I am very excited about *finally* being able to participate in WCG's GPU efforts. My machines are Linux; glad I can share this Windows machine of my husband's.

Yes, Bearcat, this is one of the new Trinity family of desktop APUs. I think it's going to be replaced with an even newer family later this year (which is why I could get this machine for less than $500 with 10 Gb of memory and a 1 TB hard drive).

The CPU is not fast. CFSW WUs are taking about 43 minutes when running 4 at a time (or 3 + a GPU beta). But if a 65-watt chip can support 3 CPU threads and a GPU all crunching at once at a reasonable pace, that is a lot of FLOPS per watt.

Once these exciting betas are done, I'll set BOINC not to run the GPU while the system is in use -- I don't want anything to interfere with my husband's use of the machine.

Thanks Brink. That looks pretty cool. Don't think I'll crunch more than one thread at a time at first, until I can see how it goes. Would be nice if WCG had projects for laptops that had a 30 day return time. Will have to find a project that has short run times, like HCC was.
This laptop has the intel 4000 integrated gpu. Anyone try gpu crunching with this? Curious if it's any good. Thanks for all the help.

Brink, just looked at our team stats. I just moved into 3rd place on points. I'll be knocking on your door in the near future.

The best longetivity for Li-ion batteries is to keep them 40-60% charged and located in a cool but not freezing area (like 40-50 degrees F, 5-10C). Given these conditions a battery loses about 2-6% of its charge capacity per year. A battery charged to 100% most of the time will lose about 20% of its charge capacity per year, and even more once significant heat is introduced.