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I have a barely used, 2-year old HP laptop, specs below. It’s slow af to stream videos, overheats easily, and sometimes seems to hate me. (Thus, barely used).

Can I run a pruned node on this?

If so, is anything special I’d need to do, besides breaking out of the Windows-store-downloads-only limitation (already done)..?

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HP 14 Series 14" Laptop AMD 3020e 4GB RAM 64GB eMMc Jet Black - AMD Athlon 3020e Dual-core - AMD Radeon Graphics - HP TrueVision 720p HD Camera

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

I'm not sure how small a pruned node can get but I'd imagine 64gb is not enough space.

Though I think that can be easily solved with a USB hard drive. If you're running a pruned node, you can likely get away with 500gb? If I'm not mistaken, right now the full blockchain is around 512gb.

In fact I'd suggest you simply get a 1tb drive and run a full node. Price-wise I don't think it's a big difference between the two (could be wrong, haven't checked).

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boston wine 2y ago

Thanks, this is helpful! Do you think the machine (which seems pretty “weak” as far as I can tell) would be able to cope with running Bitcoin core for at least a few hours a day?

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

It's probably on the cusp but i think it can do it. I don't think it takes too much power to run core. 4gb ram and 2 cores probably bare bare min.

424ad77e... 2y ago

Nah.

It can run on less.

He'll be fine