I'm not trolling: I have 50Mbit connection and specd out macbook - probably most powerful laptop you can expect from a user.

This Mist/Wallet thing does. not. work.

Maybe if i tweak or use light client it would, but as a user I don't care.

Yea I gave up on eth wallets as well. I just ended up dumping my coins onto coinbase and hope they don't get hacked or something... I looked into hot wallets, but so many people have theirs keys stolen somehow. Figured it was last risk to leave it on an exchange.

I have a Dell laptop that I bought for ~$500 in 2014, upgraded to 16GB RAM and SSD, it holds ETH, LTC and BTC blockchain. It's constant network transfer is 4MB/s, avg. CPU usage 70%. Run Arch. What problem are you having?

How often do you sync? First of all, mist crashes way too often. Even when it works it takes hours to sync. DOes it work smoothly for you?

Mist crashed only once for me when I run out of memory, "swarm" consumed 15GB of RAM and was killed by kernel. Otherwise it never crashed for me. Mist is on all the time, bitcoin once day for a few hours (3-5hrs), litecoin is on for weekends.

Maybe because it's always on it works for you. I only open it once in a while, and leave frustrated.

You should really use parity I think. Its chain will end up at ~9GiB and the traffic is minimal.

I know parity is better, I tried. But I prefer "official" stuff to at least be bailed out if i lose my coins :D

lol :D