Well most of the computing power is in the GPU, so for some sort of specific application you could take advantage of them, but for this sort of thing, yeah, it'

Well most of the computing power is in the GPU, so for some sort of specific application you could take advantage of them, but for this sort of thing, yeah, it's not a great fit. I'm not sure about laptops. You could probably do it, but there was an article on here a while ago about using chromebooks for ARM native compilation, and the result was that the machines weren't quite up to it. The load would kill the machines and cause their batteries to swell up alarmingly. I'm not sure if a macbook would fare better.