Okay guys so I am a student in computer science and I am about to head into the world of portable pentesting/IT security and I am not sure where to look. I have never owned a laptop in my life, because they have never had the kind of power I like to have. So I looked around and there are a ton of options and brands for laptops, but they are accompanied by price tags that make me want to cry. I can deal without dedicated graphics as long as there is a Thunderbolt 3 for outsourcing GPU's for hash cracking but otherwise I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. I am looking for something light, portable, can last (battery wise) a while but has at least 12gb of ram and the capability to upgrade both RAM and SSD/HD later. However, my big question is, can I get away with the new 7th Gen i7's? They only have dual cores in the laptops and I am worried that running 3-4 VMs plus primary will test a dual core too much, (if it will run that many at all?). Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Laptop Question and Suggestions
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Rhinofart
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What's your budget? I actually use a 17" MacBookPro with 16Gb or RAM, 940GB SSD, and it's a quad core i7 @ 2.3Ghz. On it I run the native OS X El Captain, a Windows 10 VM, a windows 8.1 VM, Kali Linux VM for Pentesting, Tails, and Ubuntu VM for linux stuff. It's got more than enough power for me.
Lenovo thinkpad t460(not s) is a good one concerning battery life because it gives you an extended battery.Also I dont think you will have issues with 8 gigs of ram+ssd as a begining of all this,after all most of the models support 16gigs of ram or even 32.All of them can take an ssd,it is a hard drive after all.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460/?cid=us:display:lqep9k&dclid=CMjSlNXD2tECFa2mUQodk-YA_A
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460/?cid=us:display:lqep9k&dclid=CMjSlNXD2tECFa2mUQodk-YA_A
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