Quote from: Bestcoin-fan on October 31, 2017, 02:37:20 PM

Quote from: p3ppymon on October 31, 2017, 02:10:33 PM

I used to run the full node on my workstation. But since I switched to a laptop (much more handy for what I do at the moment), I cannot do that any longer.
First, it will take ages to download the blockchain;
Second, while downloading the blockchain, hardly I can do other things (even though my laptop is not that bad)!
That is a shame I cannot keep doing it!
Would you have any solution?

p3ppymon,
Possible solutions:

1) You may download the whole blockchain at once from my Google Drive (see details in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2321650

2) You may keep a pruned blockchain (personally I have never tried it)

3) while downloading the blockchain you can be safely doing any other things with your laptop! Process, CPU, download bandwidth will be busy 3-20% only.
Besides, on windows you may use any advanced task manager (I use http://systemexplorer.net it's free) to set the process priority, etc. for the Bitcoin Core application to even more reduce its hardware requirements.

Thanks for the recommendations. I will try to give it a go downloading again the bull blockchain from your drive.