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A good laptop for sysadmin

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Hello
I am not sure here is right place for this question or not but i am studying mcsa and ccna, and i think i have to buy a laptop but what type ? i need i5 or i3 or a celeron is enough ? pls tell me celeron is enough.
Friday, February 21, 2020 7:19 PM
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No, I misunderstood what the need of the laptop was for. If you are taking a laptop to a job site, you don't need much usually. I still take an old Thinkpad x220 with me and it has never let me down. It also only has 8GB of memory.
Part of my kit I take to sites is:
- Trusty old laptop with SSD (with most recent Windows ISOs stored)
- Spare USB thumbdrives and CD-Rs
- USB Hard drive adapter
- Serial/USB console adapter (if I had to console into an old switch)
My kit is probably under $300 or 13 mil Rials in your home country.
Seth
A user just like you
- Marked as answer by Mehrdad Aria Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:21 AM
Monday, February 24, 2020 2:32 PM -
List Of Best Laptops for Network Engineers 2020
1: Acer Predator Helios 300.
2: Apple 15 Inch MacBook Pro.
3: Razer Blade 15: (Best For Cisco Engineers)
4: MSI GS65 Stealth-002 15.6.
5: Acer Aspire 7 Casual Gaming Laptop.
6: ASUS VivoBook S Ultra Thin.
7: Google Pixelbook i7.- Proposed as answer by Danny van DamMVP, Editor Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:18 PM
- Marked as answer by Danny van DamMVP, Editor Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:18 PM
Thursday, March 5, 2020 6:55 AM
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If you don't have a homelab (old servers) to play around with, then I'd get an i5 with at least 16GB of memory for virtualization
Seth
A user just like you
- Marked as answer by Mehrdad Aria Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:21 AM
- Unmarked as answer by Mehrdad Aria Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:21 AM
Friday, February 21, 2020 7:48 PM -
i have a pc (i5+8gb ram) for test and practice. i mean is for job, for example i have a project and i must go and install windows server for someone/company, for this i need a laptop with i5 + 16gb ram ?
problem is cheapest laptop in my country is 30 million Rials and ... is very expensive.
Saturday, February 22, 2020 2:45 PM -
No, I misunderstood what the need of the laptop was for. If you are taking a laptop to a job site, you don't need much usually. I still take an old Thinkpad x220 with me and it has never let me down. It also only has 8GB of memory.
Part of my kit I take to sites is:
- Trusty old laptop with SSD (with most recent Windows ISOs stored)
- Spare USB thumbdrives and CD-Rs
- USB Hard drive adapter
- Serial/USB console adapter (if I had to console into an old switch)
My kit is probably under $300 or 13 mil Rials in your home country.
Seth
A user just like you
- Marked as answer by Mehrdad Aria Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:21 AM
Monday, February 24, 2020 2:32 PM -
Very good info, thank you very much. now i go for a i3 or ryzen 3 with 8gb ram.
:)
Monday, February 24, 2020 4:18 PM -
List Of Best Laptops for Network Engineers 2020
1: Acer Predator Helios 300.
2: Apple 15 Inch MacBook Pro.
3: Razer Blade 15: (Best For Cisco Engineers)
4: MSI GS65 Stealth-002 15.6.
5: Acer Aspire 7 Casual Gaming Laptop.
6: ASUS VivoBook S Ultra Thin.
7: Google Pixelbook i7.- Proposed as answer by Danny van DamMVP, Editor Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:18 PM
- Marked as answer by Danny van DamMVP, Editor Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:18 PM
Thursday, March 5, 2020 6:55 AM -
List Of Best Laptops for Network Engineers 2020
Thank you, but i can have these models only in dream. i live in iran and our economy is almost destroyed.
1: Acer Predator Helios 300.
2: Apple 15 Inch MacBook Pro.
3: Razer Blade 15: (Best For Cisco Engineers)
4: MSI GS65 Stealth-002 15.6.
5: Acer Aspire 7 Casual Gaming Laptop.
6: ASUS VivoBook S Ultra Thin.
7: Google Pixelbook i7.Thursday, March 5, 2020 7:13 AM -
List Of Best Laptops for Network Engineers 2020
1: Acer Predator Helios 300.
2: Apple 15 Inch MacBook Pro.
3: Razer Blade 15: (Best For Cisco Engineers)
4: MSI GS65 Stealth-002 15.6.
5: Acer Aspire 7 Casual Gaming Laptop.
6: ASUS VivoBook S Ultra Thin.
7: Google Pixelbook i7.Acer???? :D
For virtualization, 16gb ram is a must. I tried to play with Hyper-V in 8gb laptop, can't do much there.
MCSE Mobility 2018. Expert on SCCM, Windows 10, ALOVPN, MBAM.
Sunday, March 8, 2020 8:05 AM -
my pc have 8 gb ram, can we get help from pagefile ?Sunday, March 8, 2020 8:17 AM