I have been scanning with the Acer laptop, while it is the most ugly laptop I ever owned , it does the job.
I did remove a lot of bloatware and uninstalled/disabled a lot of system hoggers, so I can use as much as processing power as I can.

I did a few free scans in the highest res settings, and only after completing the total scan did the final meshing take about 10 min to proces.
and also got a warning during the end of some scan set (+15 alignments) that the I am running out of recources
I just hit No, and keep scanning, but I don't know what would happen if it really crashes, but I was able to keep scanning for 4/5 times to finish the total scan.



I can remotely see and control the laptop with my iPad and Splashtop, and during the final meshing I can just view downstairs, and save the file to my dropbox.