Best laptop GPU

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Im speccing myself up a new laptop and want to get the best seti performance I can for the price

What the most important thing for successful crunching?
CUDA cores
Gigaflops
Processor Clock (Mhz)

Most laptops seem to come with a G102/105M GPU

G105M

CUDA Cores 8
Gigaflops 38
Processor Clock (MHz) 1600 MHz

whereas the G102M has

CUDA Cores 16
Gigaflops 48
Processor Clock (MHz) 1000 MHz

Im not bothered about games, but I do want my laptop to crunch for the cause overnight at work when Im not around..

Whats the most important value??
 
When you consider a GTX260 desktop graphics card has 216 cores it looks as if both of those options wouldn't be worth folding with. I think you can get higher end mobile versions of graphics cards in the more expensive laptops but I wouldn't recommend folding on a laptop you care about. An increased amount of dust will get into the heatsinks/fans and the heat could reduce the laptops lifespan.
 
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