I've been looking a lot at LTC and PPC. I want to try and get some coins when they're still low, but because I'm just getting started financially with cryptocurrency trading I have to wait a few days. I got some free BetaCoins so hopefully that becomes worth something .

So mining is definitely out of the question for me then. Don't want my only computer to burn out on me.
Slow BTC is better than no BTC though.