Warning: I am not a 12 year old who claims to have A.D.D. but an adult with it , so I sicrenely apologize if I ramble on a bit. Yes, laptops are quite powerful now-a-days. Unless you have a netbook then don't waste your time. Just make sure you have decent ram usually 1gb is more than enough, on ghz, I wouldn't be sure on. But 1.5ghz or higher is what I would expect. Anyways I'll have a couple suggestions for run at home servers with laptops, and just some information about the ram use. I have a MacBook Pro 2011,so it has 4gb ram, 2.3ghz, so don't do the following unless you have at least 4gb on your laptop, not my fault if anything happens.. Anyways extremely high speed internet/High Data Transfer rate Router doesn't hurt, if you want outside of lan be sure the port is properly forwarded. But I play 4-5 players LAN, off my laptop. I run MC with my account, a Server with some Mods, and a second MC (unverified) through MC Patcher by clicking Test Minecraft' on the same laptop. Hint: That is usually the 5th player to cover me from creepers when finding ore/building houses. (But server must be in online-mode=false for unverified players like that) Anyways back to RAM use from playing it off a laptop, if you are like me, you run the server at or near 1-2gb (1gb is recommended by defualt on the server), then I run my main MC account with 1gb, and my second with 866mb, leaving a small space to run safari(youtube/wiki), itunes and any other thing that maybe ran on the side. Especially if you want to use an external comm. link, that may run some memory use, probably not much, but you wouldn't want it to have you running at 99% (I use roughly around 3.5gb RAM at those levels which isn't normal,but I'm not sure if you would need to increase your MC ram, but I would think it's useful for the photorealism texture pack, and mods I run. Which is why I have my MC at double default ram, but if you could add more. No one is stopping you from having the most bad ass minecraft serving/running machine) By defualt a server runs at like 100mb (incredibly low) but when I started my first server was 2 people, and it ran fine, also did a three person was also OK at 100mb. But once really big building and modding comes in, 3-4 people would probably chomp up that memory quickly, if you want to run some mods you would want your server to be a little more, I personally would have it lowest 600mb-1gb, If you do run your server at 1gb ram, and play, be sure you have enough RAM. But if the server and MC run on the same machine on defualt settings would be (roughly) around 616mb, so 1gb of ram would run it in theory.. JeffSorrowsAlso can find my characters on the Skindex author JeffSorrows |
