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RE: [in] Laptop Considerations

Subject: RE: [in] Laptop Considerations
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:10:29 -0600
David Bouchard wrote:
I am about to be purchasing a laptop and I was wanting the 
advice of the list.  I know this can be a very personal topic 
for some people, but I have to throw it out there anyway.
<snip>

I like my 3200+ AMD64 e-machines w/15.4 screen, 80gb drive & 1.5gb RAM a
lot.  I run SuSE 9.1 64-bit as the base OS with VMWare Workstation to run
Windows 2003, 2000, 98, and FreeBSD when I need them.  Very fast, though
processor is 2.6ghz, it blows the doors off the fastest P4 as does the
Opteron over Xeon.  If you are going to be pen-testing, you definatley need
Linux as most of the tools you will be using are open-source.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
Information Security Engineer 
DP Solutions

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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke

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