Hi, I plan to have 4-5 cameras. So are you saying that an intel i7 on a desktop is stronger than an intel i7 on a laptop?
If you are just test driving, I ran 6 cameras for about a year just fine. But you will quickly realize numerous drawbacks to a laptop.
1. Limited capability to expand storage
2. Lower power CPUs
3. All in one mainboard, so if you fry anything the whole board could be useless
4. Usually only 1 network port (wont matter if you VLAN)
But I had one just gathering dust so I used it to testdrive
Blue Iris until I got a proper desktop setup.
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