I've been curious to learn how mining works and testing it out for myself so I've been wondering if there are any good coins out there which won't be too hard to set up mining and could actually mine coins on a fairly old laptop?
If something can bring money to someone with a laptop why shouldnt someone buy a desktop and mine it for more profit? Dont be naive.
Try to find a coin that you believe that will succeed because of the idea...Mining with a laptop wont make you anywhere except if you mine the first/second day a coin is out seriously...
That's not really what I asking. I honestly don't believe any altcoins (in their current state) will overtake bitcoin so I don't want to spend money on a new computer and electricity to seriously mine them. Sure, some of them will go up in price but it seems like a guessing game on which will. I'm really just trying to get my head around cryptocurrencies in general and I'm the type that learns more by doing than by reading.
then i would suggest peercoin primecoin datacoin and maybe namecoin but i dont know much about the latter...