I meant to ask earlier, I take it folding on a laptop is a bad idea?
yes and no. ultraportables and 2in1 are a no-go from the start. of course any contribution helps, but at this time, like it's been said, we're in no shortage of powerful systems. those laptops would contribute very little and yeah, they could be in danger of overheating if not solidly designed. at the very least, they would throttle heavily, further reducing your folding power. i know that smaller systems get smaller WUs, but at this point, it's actually a greater contribution to not add to the folding pool if the machine can't process a WU in less than, say, 4-6 hours anyway. storage and network bandwidth for stanford is much more valuable at this point than raw compute power.
as for the general rule of thumb, for heavy compute the number and speed of the compute units is king, with memory bandwith second and cpu power last (for GPU based stuff like FaH). there is also a definite spike in PPD per watt for Turing GPUs. (you may want to look up AMD yourself). so yeah, if you got a gaming laptop who's built for sustained, top speed use, say, with a 2060 or 1660Ti/Super, then yes, it can help. older nvidia laptops can also, but with diminishing returns of course. turing is that much more efficient. anything else would be of relatively little use, put the machine in danger (maybe not the chips themselves, but if the solder job is crappy and you manage to desolder something, it's RIP) and so it's best left alone. those laptops are meant for burst speed, not sustained crunching.
that said though, many of them, especially the brand new ryzens and ice lake i5/i7 should pack a decent punch on rosetta, albeit with the same thermal caveats listed above. worth a try maybe, just download some monitoring software like afterburner to closely check the clock and temp behaviour of the chip.