Hi there, it's good to know that you want to learn mining cryptocurrency but personally I won't encourage using your laptop in mining. It will actually reduce it's life same as what happened to my 7 year old pc who just passed away few days ago. If you want to mine, a desktop pc will be better or if you have funds available, better to build a mining rig. I'm planning to build one soon. I have very limited budget so I guess I will just start with 1 card then slowly increase card number.