From: Curt Purdy (purdy@tecman.com)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 17:10:29 EST
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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