Just be careful of temperatures if you are looking to resell the computer. 75c is probably around the max temperature to run at 24/7 without significantly increasing your chances of fucking your gear up.
Monero Mining
tell your dad to check whattomine, monero mining is suboptimal for his setup
Less than a dolar a day, and you're gonna damage your laptop
Remember too that this is canadian so the $6000 is really only around $4700 USD if that changes anything. As for the i7s I really couldnt say, he's pretty much just bandwagoning off the bitcoin hype and its looking like he didnt do enough research
Your IP address is still revealed with monero. OP's dad is gay.
Doesn't change anything. I recently built a rig with slightly higher cryptonight hashrate as your dad's. But for half the price (I am a leaf as well).
>love building shit
>want to set up a cool mining rig for sweet passive income because I'm shit at trading
>everyone says its not worth
It's profitable. It's just not optimal. But it's less risky.
Just build one!