We've been running on a Lenovo Legion laptop - Ryzen 7 4800H, 32GB ram, 512GB nvme, GTX 1650, Win 11, VMware Workstation Pro for 2 years. Beast crunches quickly and is rock solid. $1200CAD at time of purchase.
If you don't mind used, consider a Lenovo ThinkStation P520. I got one earlier this year with a 6-core xeon process, 32gb ram, no hdd or gpu for $190 on ebay. I installed a 1tb nvme and 1tb ssd along with an RTX 2070 after receiving it. I'll be upgrading ram later.
I use a gaming PC i built in 2019 for everything 5800x3d (8 cores) 32 GB RAM 1TB NVME SSD Okay, it was originally a 3800X (which still ran everything fine.) I switched CPUs recently because a friend was changing platforms. All the TCM courses I've done I did on the 3800X. My GPU is a 2080 and has been sufficient for courses and also some real world password cracking for my day job.
I bought an old Thinkpad off marketplace for $180. Ram was upgradable. Now it has 512gb SSD, 32gb ram, and upgraded screen to 1080p and it has a Ryzen 5. All for less than $400 total.
Bought a second hand MacBook Pro 2015 for 250 euro then upgraded it with 32 gb of ram when I started. And a new 1tb ssd, It got me through college pretty easily and was super snappy with virtual box running multiple VM’s.
Perfect timing for the video. The problem I have with my silicon Mac is its architecture. Especially when it comes down to docker containers that only support amd64 etc. It’s a great machine but virtualization is still a pain. Keep that in mind. Btw. I tried emulation etc. but it’s too slow to use.
I actually built a tower over the past couple of years for video editing and music production that is being repurposed to accommodate my cybersecurity degree training as well. Have a recent i7 on it, with at least 64GB of ram, plus two ssds, one a 500GB SATA and the other a 1TB NVME m.2. Also have thunderbolt and an old nvidia based graphics card. All of this along with liquid cooling for the CPU and plenty of case fans to minimize heat and keep things running efficiently. Built for another power use purpose, but will easily pull double duty.
Don't get discouraged if you're broke. When it comes to learning, literally have the bare minimum will get you super far. For a laptop I bought an old i5 5th gen 8gb DDR3 thinkpad for $100 of ebay. Runs Linux just fine. When I bought a PC, it was an i5 8th gen w/ 16gb of ram. More than enough to run my host OS and 2 VMs, although they didn't have too much juice. You don't need a lot to learn. You won't be labbing a 6 VM lab, but you don't need to. Most of these are hilariously overpowered for most pentesting related activities. It is nice to have, but not required more often than not.
I use x230 a 12 year old laptop, It got me through linux mastery, My tips for really broke people, go for ram and ssd and dual boot kali linux then virtual ram a single os on kali, that's helps me to learning newer hacking techniques.
If you end up with the need to crack some passwords and you are low on budget, would a cloud provider instance (AWS, Azure,...) with some beefy GPU's not be more 'economical'?
I bought an Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 7 5700U, 24 GB RAM and 500 SSD, for about 700 dollars brand new. Works great, used it for my CCNA certification studies, had no problems loading 6-7 virtual machines at once with packettracer and GNS3. I put Linux Mint on it as my OS, and virtualbox for all my virtualization needs. Awesome machine so far. Might upgrade the RAM to 64GB at one point if i need to, it has the option.
This makes me feel a lot better about the hardware I have to learn on. One question though, doesn't apple have some issues with virtualization now that their processors are ARM based?
You will definitely find some things that you won't be able to virtualize right now. It seems like most companies are working towards ways to support the new M1 and M2s though, so hopefully sooner rather than later we'll get more support.
Yes the new M series processors are a different architecture so although you can run arm versions of linux and windows, there are a lot of limitations. An older Mac i7 might be a better option if you are going down that path. I use a M1 Mac 90% of the time doing Systems Admin, but also have a legion 5 gaming laptop, that oddly enough I often have running beside me and remote into to run virtual box. I would suggest getting as much memory as you can afford and ideally M2 or SSD drive 1Tb. This is only due to us running up to 5 Virtual Machines at once for some labs. In the home environment I use a server with Proxmox on it.
Do you have health full build ? Honestly never gonna build something like that, Just curious of all the stuff he used for his build out of pure curiosity 😮😮😮
Because I like to play games from time to time I’m running an i9 12700K, 64GB RAM, and 10 TB of drive space. I have a good chunk of VMs. Still not the behemoth that Heath’s system is but it gets the job done without issues.
I am in university right now and doing some pentesting in my internships and I recently bought an ASUS TUF A15 2022 which has 16 gigs RAM, 1 TB SSD, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor and an RTX 3050Ti CPU and it is working brilliantly. Also, I found it to be the most cost effective option in this configuration.
I am an absolute beginner and am trying to learn programming/coding and ethical hacking. I am also in the process of building my pc. Will a ryzen 7 7700x and 32 gb ddr5 ram be very good at running multiple virtual machines (like 3 or more) very fast?
MSI GF75 thin I've upgraded to 64Gb ram and 1.5Tb storage with i7 10th Gen and a good GPU. Got in on a black Friday sale. Have also just bought a refurbished M2 from Amazon. For daily driver.
Dell Precision 5540, $400 refurbished. 8 cores i7, 32gb ram, 512gb ssd, thunderbolt and plenty of other ports. Also a gpu to accelerate brute forcing. Perfect for my current cybersecurity courses.
Ebay $300 I got an immaculate core i7 8th gen Dell Precision with 32GB Skill RipJaw RAM and a Nvidia quadro. Has NVME storage and room for a SATA Drive 6 cores 12 threads. I am no IT Pro but what ive learned in just one year with this Laptop. I also run Linux dual Boot on my 2015 MacBook Pros 16GB RAM. Several Distros run flawlessly even on my Macs. Haven't ran Linux on my M! Mac yet
I brought a cheap new laptop for 250 and converted it into a badass parrot os hacking laptop. I used to convert first gen chromebooks into Kali laptops for my classmates.
XMG NEO '23 : a watercooled laptop monster (crunching the numbers is not a problem) I9 13900HX (overclocked and undervolt = 13980HX), 32GB DDR5 5600 CL45 OCed to 6600 CL40 and a NVIDIA 4080 Mobile (4070ti castrated 35 terraflops FP32/64 for cracking purpose) RAID-1 16TB SSD NVME and a waterblock AIO OASSIS ...
I've been using a Chromebook converted to a Linux machine for the last few months (with Parrot OS). Only has 4 GB of RAM and a dual core with no hyperthreading. It works well on bare metal but struggles when spinning up a virtual machine. So, I just got a good deal on Amazon primeday for a refurbished quad core (8 hyper threaded) with 16GB of RAM for $215. If I need something more powerful, I just use my desktop with either Kali live on a thumbdrive or VM.
I don't like Windows very much, I have Kali on Apple Silicon on VMWare. Do you need to know Windows if you want to get into Cybersecurity? Only downside I've find so far is you can't access Tor using Kali on a modern MacBook.
Windows by default tend to be one of the most exploited operating systems. Depending on the exact role you are looking for in cybersecurity it would almost always be beneficial for you to learn the Windows OS.
@@NeverDoubtMe23 I've made a start and really like it so far. Got a couple of books. Good thing with Mac is you can use the Terminal to practice without leaving Mac too.
Do you have Heaths full build? Honestly never gonna build something like that, just curious of all the stuff he used for his build out of pure curiosity.
University student, I have a laptop its pretty old but it still works MSI Gp62m 7RDX Leopard config: i7-7700 HQ 16 gb ddr4 4 gb GTX 1050 128 gb M.2 ssd 1tb 7200 RPM Dual booted
That’s what I use but I run off virtual machines that are running off cloud servers. So when I am cracking passwords I’m using the cloud machines Tesla gpus
I run Burp on my 8 year old Chromebook all the time. Set up a swap partition with 8gb of space. It’s slower than RAM, but I haven’t been able to notice it. I have an HP laptop with 16gb and my Chromebook works just as well.
HP victus 16GB Ram 512GB SSD, 5600H processor, RX5700M GPU. Storage is the only issue I'm facing will soon be upgrading to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage
I am a cyber student. I have an MSI i7 8core 32 GB RAM and 512 GB hard drive. I have a 2nd, a Dell g7 7588 with a 6 core i7 I upgraded to 32 GB of RAM it has a Samsung 980 EVO nvme 2.0 1 TB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. I was thinking of trying to sell the Dell and get an older Mac, 2019-pre M1. Thoughts?
Lenovo P52 i7 8th gen, 40GB Ram, triple booting kali, 10Pro, Server 2019, but going up to 64GB Ram. Ideally 128 would be nice. When I run aircrack to find the wifi pw my system is maxed out immediately! 😂
Hello there. Having trouble choosing between intel or amd I’m new to this & hear all kind of stuff from both. But which would be better or the best choice. Thank you.
I have a beginner question. I just started using Cherry Tree to take notes, and love the format. However, when I save a file, I try to go back and open it and all it pulls up is xml, or SQL. Is this right??? If not, what is going on??? Do I need to try and just run the code?? And if so, how do I. Thank you so much.
My last laptop with parrot os was a dell 630 and it was running on imaginary ram somehow both its ram cards were missing but still displaying 1 gb installed ram was missing the bios battery under the battery at least I think it was the bios battery but it still out performed my Mrs hp laptop for web development she had 8 gb ram and a 4 tb ssd and another 500gb ssd and I'm not sure what processor she had she doesn't like computers much any more but yea the only thing it couldn't really do is compile code or anything with 3d imaging but ran all the hacking tools like a charm somehow I still have it and will keep on using it I'm thinking about using it to mine some monero once I swapp out its hard drive for a 500 gb ssd I'm a poor bastard lol
well although I own a pretty strong macbook I use real VMs a lot. You gotta check if its against their terms of use but there are a lot of providers out there that you could use if you need REAL power.
Are you able to use the Tesla series cards for password cracking? Curious if something like a Tesla v100 or even the cheaper Tesla P100 would compete with 4090s in term of powers. Obviously you cant really use that for home uses (which i assume Heath is doing as well)
I have two options to go with. 1. i9 13th gen 32gb 1tb 4080 gpu 2. Macbook M3 Pro M3 Max 32GB 1TB I dont have a problem with the cost, which one should I buy?
I have a 4core 8 thread processor and 8 gb ram and having just 1 windows virtual machine opened severely lags my computer or even freezes it completely. How is it possible to have more than 1 vm running at the same time with these pc specs?
Awesome to see the Cyber Mentor and Team Zach mashup! Watched your TH-cam channel years ago when I got started in IT.
Thank you for the support!! - Zach
@@TCMSecurityAcademy hi there, should i go for mac m1 or m3 with 16gb RAM and 512 gb ssd??
We've been running on a Lenovo Legion laptop - Ryzen 7 4800H, 32GB ram, 512GB nvme, GTX 1650, Win 11, VMware Workstation Pro for 2 years. Beast crunches quickly and is rock solid. $1200CAD at time of purchase.
Apparently all you need is a fire stick, a phone, keyboard and mouse... And autism.. according to what I read in the news..
They don't just hand out autism to everyone
Unless you are cracking passwords any machine that runs Linux will work
For those who love both OS environments, would you recommend WSL2.?
For real. Does Linux do windows passwords and bios
If you're using your home PC to crack passwords you're old-school. Why do that when I can rent a much more efficient GPU
@@ricolaw2571 Yes, let the NSA and CIA know what you are doing. good luck with that.
@@ricolaw2571rent? Please elaborate
If you don't mind used, consider a Lenovo ThinkStation P520. I got one earlier this year with a 6-core xeon process, 32gb ram, no hdd or gpu for $190 on ebay. I installed a 1tb nvme and 1tb ssd along with an RTX 2070 after receiving it. I'll be upgrading ram later.
For sure, buying used is really the best way to go when you're trying to keep things affordable.
Damn that’s a steal!
I use a gaming PC i built in 2019 for everything
5800x3d (8 cores)
32 GB RAM
1TB NVME SSD
Okay, it was originally a 3800X (which still ran everything fine.) I switched CPUs recently because a friend was changing platforms. All the TCM courses I've done I did on the 3800X.
My GPU is a 2080 and has been sufficient for courses and also some real world password cracking for my day job.
32gb of ram??? That just wow
I bought an old Thinkpad off marketplace for $180. Ram was upgradable. Now it has 512gb SSD, 32gb ram, and upgraded screen to 1080p and it has a Ryzen 5. All for less than $400 total.
That’s a great deal!
Ryzen 5 old?
What kind of thinkpad is it ?
@@slowvo25 its an L14
It's always top notch content. You guys have demystified a lot of stuffs in Cyber Security and I really appreciate you guys. Thank you so much.
Bought a second hand MacBook Pro 2015 for 250 euro then upgraded it with 32 gb of ram when I started. And a new 1tb ssd, It got me through college pretty easily and was super snappy with virtual box running multiple VM’s.
This is the way right here!! Love seeing that. That MacBook will still hold strong today.
Bro.....just today i upgraded my laptop from 8 to 16 gb ram for cyber.....awesome timing
Haha, that IS awesome timing! Good luck and have fun!
I like that Run CMD hang up 🤙🏼 It brings me back lol✌🏼
Perfect timing for the video. The problem I have with my silicon Mac is its architecture. Especially when it comes down to docker containers that only support amd64 etc. It’s a great machine but virtualization is still a pain. Keep that in mind. Btw. I tried emulation etc. but it’s too slow to use.
For sure, it seems like they are working towards getting the virtualization issues resolved so that's always good to hear.
UTM has been working great on the new gen Mac’s for me
UTM and Parallel's works great on my m1 macbook@@frodobe_tbaggin3146
Is there any update on this? The SANS Institute courses still have a disclaimer that M1 Macs can't be used for their training. @@TCMSecurityAcademy
Can you correct the "Cali" in the timestamp please, it's messing me up.
I actually built a tower over the past couple of years for video editing and music production that is being repurposed to accommodate my cybersecurity degree training as well. Have a recent i7 on it, with at least 64GB of ram, plus two ssds, one a 500GB SATA and the other a 1TB NVME m.2. Also have thunderbolt and an old nvidia based graphics card. All of this along with liquid cooling for the CPU and plenty of case fans to minimize heat and keep things running efficiently. Built for another power use purpose, but will easily pull double duty.
I was thinking of laptop to get for cybersecurity, then boom this video was on my notification bar thanks guys
It's like we read your mind! Good luck to you on your journey!
Great video!!!
My main rig is a custom build finished in 2021.
i9(10 cores)
64GB RAM
932GB HD
4TB SSD
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
Kraken X cooler
overkill
Don't get discouraged if you're broke.
When it comes to learning, literally have the bare minimum will get you super far. For a laptop I bought an old i5 5th gen 8gb DDR3 thinkpad for $100 of ebay. Runs Linux just fine.
When I bought a PC, it was an i5 8th gen w/ 16gb of ram. More than enough to run my host OS and 2 VMs, although they didn't have too much juice.
You don't need a lot to learn. You won't be labbing a 6 VM lab, but you don't need to.
Most of these are hilariously overpowered for most pentesting related activities. It is nice to have, but not required more often than not.
I use x230 a 12 year old laptop, It got me through linux mastery, My tips for really broke people, go for ram and ssd and dual boot kali linux then virtual ram a single os on kali, that's helps me to learning newer hacking techniques.
I got used lenovo t480 for 100$ 16gb ram and 256 ssd. Installed kali. Works like a charm.
That is a great deal! Where did you find that deal?
@@TCMSecurityAcademymonitored eBay for a week
RAM is probably soldered, eh?
@@cacogenicistno. U can swap it
@@cacogenicist2 ram slot on t480.
Thanks bro, this is really helpful great job ❤
If you end up with the need to crack some passwords and you are low on budget, would a cloud provider instance (AWS, Azure,...) with some beefy GPU's not be more 'economical'?
when I saw Heath has this 512GB of RAM, I thought they misspelled Disc with RAM
hahaha, your eyes were correct.
was looking for something like this.. now got it!
Glad to hear that, good luck to you!
Just enrolled to PJPT few days ago and purchased a custom build desktop. Ryzen 7 5600G with 32gb Ram 1 TB SSD and 5600xt PG D3 GPU :)
You will definitely be good to go! Good luck on your PJPT!
I bought an Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 7 5700U, 24 GB RAM and 500 SSD, for about 700 dollars brand new. Works great, used it for my CCNA certification studies, had no problems loading 6-7 virtual machines at once with packettracer and GNS3. I put Linux Mint on it as my OS, and virtualbox for all my virtualization needs. Awesome machine so far. Might upgrade the RAM to 64GB at one point if i need to, it has the option.
That’s a great deal honestly. Thank you for sharing.
This makes me feel a lot better about the hardware I have to learn on. One question though, doesn't apple have some issues with virtualization now that their processors are ARM based?
You will definitely find some things that you won't be able to virtualize right now. It seems like most companies are working towards ways to support the new M1 and M2s though, so hopefully sooner rather than later we'll get more support.
Yes the new M series processors are a different architecture so although you can run arm versions of linux and windows, there are a lot of limitations. An older Mac i7 might be a better option if you are going down that path. I use a M1 Mac 90% of the time doing Systems Admin, but also have a legion 5 gaming laptop, that oddly enough I often have running beside me and remote into to run virtual box. I would suggest getting as much memory as you can afford and ideally M2 or SSD drive 1Tb. This is only due to us running up to 5 Virtual Machines at once for some labs. In the home environment I use a server with Proxmox on it.
Do you have health full build ? Honestly never gonna build something like that, Just curious of all the stuff he used for his build out of pure curiosity 😮😮😮
I think i will buy an amazon firestick instead.
Good stuff. Dewalt is the GOAT. You guys are great and this is very informative video Zach! Thank you TCM Security!
Dewalt is definitely 100% the GOAT, you aren't wrong.
Glad you found this useful, thank you so much!
@@TCMSecurityAcademy Not a troll, nor a liar...
Because I like to play games from time to time I’m running an i9 12700K, 64GB RAM, and 10 TB of drive space. I have a good chunk of VMs. Still not the behemoth that Heath’s system is but it gets the job done without issues.
i am currently using an intel i7 6 gen HQ laptop with 8 GB RAM and 250 Gigs of SSD and 1 TB of HDD running KALI on dual boot with my windows
Im on market place looking now, i think they smoked crack before pricing fr
Just realized this is the big guy been watching for years
very helpful, thank you so much.
I am in university right now and doing some pentesting in my internships and I recently bought an ASUS TUF A15 2022 which has 16 gigs RAM, 1 TB SSD, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor and an RTX 3050Ti CPU and it is working brilliantly. Also, I found it to be the most cost effective option in this configuration.
Nice! Glad that you found something that works for you!
Hie, I am thinking to buy Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 with ryzen 7 6800h , 16 gb 4800mhz , 512 gb ssd is it ok for PJPT ?
@@niravchauhan2278 Did you buy it?
I read the title as a " Best computer hacking in 2023 " :D
I am an absolute beginner and am trying to learn programming/coding and ethical hacking. I am also in the process of building my pc. Will a ryzen 7 7700x and 32 gb ddr5 ram be very good at running multiple virtual machines (like 3 or more) very fast?
for having windows as main os (native) nowdays sadly is at least 16GB ram , agree on that
MSI GF75 thin I've upgraded to 64Gb ram and 1.5Tb storage with i7 10th Gen and a good GPU. Got in on a black Friday sale. Have also just bought a refurbished M2 from Amazon. For daily driver.
Dell Precision 5540, $400 refurbished. 8 cores i7, 32gb ram, 512gb ssd, thunderbolt and plenty of other ports. Also a gpu to accelerate brute forcing. Perfect for my current cybersecurity courses.
Ebay $300 I got an immaculate core i7 8th gen Dell Precision with 32GB Skill RipJaw RAM and a Nvidia quadro. Has NVME storage and room for a SATA Drive 6 cores 12 threads. I am no IT Pro but what ive learned in just one year with this Laptop. I also run Linux dual Boot on my 2015 MacBook Pros 16GB RAM. Several Distros run flawlessly even on my Macs. Haven't ran Linux on my M! Mac yet
Old lenovo tiny with a 4th gen CPU and decent base specs are available for $50 a pop, maybe less. No need to spend more than that to start.
I brought a cheap new laptop for 250 and converted it into a badass parrot os hacking laptop. I used to convert first gen chromebooks into Kali laptops for my classmates.
That hat is litt. we need that merch
We're working on it! Thank you!
Amazingly comprehensive video. Enjoyed it.
👍+💬
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Great
Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome!
I'm riding the harsh tide of virtualization using my x230 thinkpad from mid 2012, I am using minoxidil right now cause I REALLY REALLY NEED IT...
are macbook m1 any good for virtualization?
Great information man :-)
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks fr the info mate, 1
I'm currently using AMD Ryzen 5 5600 H with RTX 3050 and 16 Gigs of RAM and 1 TB of Gen 5 SSD as a daily driver .
XMG NEO '23 : a watercooled laptop monster (crunching the numbers is not a problem) I9 13900HX (overclocked and undervolt = 13980HX), 32GB DDR5 5600 CL45 OCed to 6600 CL40 and a NVIDIA 4080 Mobile (4070ti castrated 35 terraflops FP32/64 for cracking purpose) RAID-1 16TB SSD NVME and a waterblock AIO OASSIS ...
That sounds like an absolute monster!
is it unuseful having a mac book m1 for cybersecurity
Which one should I buy a Mac or Windows laptop? Please tell me I am very confused ❤ BTW love your videos❤
Can you tell me a laptop both for computers science and cybersecurity PLEASE
This video tells you exactly what you need. The choice is up to you based on your budget. Good luck!
@@TCMSecurityAcademy which one will be better if we keep budget aside, please tell.
@DeependerSingh-co1if it is 100% a personal preference.
@@TCMSecurityAcademy is 16GB RAM enough programming and multitasking?
Thank you!
How is i9, RTX 4060 combination?
Hey bro, i have a hp elitbook g6 830 laptop. Ram 8gb, storage 256, core i 5, Will it help me to learn.
It will get you there to start out with!
Alienware m15 - i7 12th gen, 2TB, 16GB (to be upgraded to 64)... But years ago I started with an Acer Aspire One 😊
I've been using a Chromebook converted to a Linux machine for the last few months (with Parrot OS). Only has 4 GB of RAM and a dual core with no hyperthreading. It works well on bare metal but struggles when spinning up a virtual machine. So, I just got a good deal on Amazon primeday for a refurbished quad core (8 hyper threaded) with 16GB of RAM for $215. If I need something more powerful, I just use my desktop with either Kali live on a thumbdrive or VM.
A raspberry pi-5 has four cores and 8 gigs of RAM, where the base OS can be Kali Linux. Why virtualize when you can have it on hardware
Yea a 8gb rasberri pie 5 is pretty perfect for a budget pack and go pack
I don't like Windows very much, I have Kali on Apple Silicon on VMWare. Do you need to know Windows if you want to get into Cybersecurity? Only downside I've find so far is you can't access Tor using Kali on a modern MacBook.
Windows by default tend to be one of the most exploited operating systems. Depending on the exact role you are looking for in cybersecurity it would almost always be beneficial for you to learn the Windows OS.
@@TCMSecurityAcademy Thank you, very handy to know.)
Don't sugar coat your answer 😅. The answer is yes. You gotta learn windows
The good news is danq, once you use Linux, Apple OS will look just as bad as windows, lol.
@@NeverDoubtMe23 I've made a start and really like it so far. Got a couple of books. Good thing with Mac is you can use the Terminal to practice without leaving Mac too.
Do you have Heaths full build? Honestly never gonna build something like that, just curious of all the stuff he used for his build out of pure curiosity.
University student, I have a laptop its pretty old but it still works
MSI Gp62m 7RDX Leopard
config:
i7-7700 HQ
16 gb ddr4
4 gb GTX 1050
128 gb M.2 ssd
1tb 7200 RPM
Dual booted
I am looking to go bare metal for cyber deployments... actual missions. I have a separate laptop with VM's for testing and learning.
Macbook m2 air or which other laptop best for best for 2023?
That’s what I use but I run off virtual machines that are running off cloud servers. So when I am cracking passwords I’m using the cloud machines Tesla gpus
I run Burp on my 8 year old Chromebook all the time. Set up a swap partition with 8gb of space. It’s slower than RAM, but I haven’t been able to notice it. I have an HP laptop with 16gb and my Chromebook works just as well.
HP victus 16GB Ram 512GB SSD, 5600H processor, RX5700M GPU. Storage is the only issue I'm facing will soon be upgrading to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage
I am a cyber student. I have an MSI i7 8core 32 GB RAM and 512 GB hard drive. I have a 2nd, a Dell g7 7588 with a 6 core i7 I upgraded to 32 GB of RAM it has a Samsung 980 EVO nvme 2.0 1 TB SSD and a 1 TB HDD. I was thinking of trying to sell the Dell and get an older Mac, 2019-pre M1. Thoughts?
Lenovo P52 i7 8th gen, 40GB Ram, triple booting kali, 10Pro, Server 2019, but going up to 64GB Ram. Ideally 128 would be nice. When I run aircrack to find the wifi pw my system is maxed out immediately! 😂
which course should I go for inorder for me to master all this
Is I5 with 4 p cores and 4 e cores ideal?
Doing internship and using MSI gf63 intel i5-12500h with intel arc a370m GPU
Using RTX 3060 for password cracking will work fine or not
It will work fine.
is the m series good fit for cyber security because i have heard about virtualization issues
just curious if you think running on a VM is fine or should i just go baremetal setup and a dedicated system?
I want Heath's build. I currently run a HP gaming laptop with 32gigs of ram. Just need to update the SSD
THX :)
Hello there. Having trouble choosing between intel or amd I’m new to this & hear all kind of stuff from both. But which would be better or the best choice. Thank you.
I have a beginner question. I just started using Cherry Tree to take notes, and love the format. However, when I save a file, I try to go back and open it and all it pulls up is xml, or SQL. Is this right??? If not, what is going on??? Do I need to try and just run the code?? And if so, how do I. Thank you so much.
My last laptop with parrot os was a dell 630 and it was running on imaginary ram somehow both its ram cards were missing but still displaying 1 gb installed ram was missing the bios battery under the battery at least I think it was the bios battery but it still out performed my Mrs hp laptop for web development she had 8 gb ram and a 4 tb ssd and another 500gb ssd and I'm not sure what processor she had she doesn't like computers much any more but yea the only thing it couldn't really do is compile code or anything with 3d imaging but ran all the hacking tools like a charm somehow I still have it and will keep on using it I'm thinking about using it to mine some monero once I swapp out its hard drive for a 500 gb ssd I'm a poor bastard lol
A Handheld?
Like a steam deck?
Great Video!
Thanks for the visit, glad you enjoyed it!
well although I own a pretty strong macbook I use real VMs a lot. You gotta check if its against their terms of use but there are a lot of providers out there that you could use if you need REAL power.
I am a cyber security analyst from India, i bought a used HP Z420 workstation for 300 dollars..
12 core processor
32gb ram
4gb graphic card
How to buy used workstations without getting cheated?
Get any second hand laptop for $300 USD and upgrade its RAM to 24/32GB.
Are you able to use the Tesla series cards for password cracking? Curious if something like a Tesla v100 or even the cheaper Tesla P100 would compete with 4090s in term of powers. Obviously you cant really use that for home uses (which i assume Heath is doing as well)
U made my day Man!
How do I become a student please.
You can join TCM Academy here: www.tcm.rocks/academy
Would a mac mini work? They start at around $600 new.
They can definitely work.
I have two options to go with.
1. i9 13th gen 32gb 1tb 4080 gpu
2. Macbook M3 Pro M3 Max 32GB 1TB
I dont have a problem with the cost, which one should I buy?
1
@@TLOZ1986 got macbook m3 max
Is 6 cores cpu fine in 2023 still for home virtual lab for hacking? Or would it be better to just upgrade to a more powerful cpu with 32gb ram?
6 cores should be fine. If you can afford to make some upgrades it would never hurt.
what about 4 cores? @@TCMSecurityAcademy
i just bought m1 pro 16' 16gb RAM is it good ?
Yes, you may have trouble with virtualization on the new m1 and m2, but it looks like they’re working on fixing that.
Should i consider AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (6 cores 12 thread) or AMD Ryzen 7 5600G (8 cors 12 thread) ?
I spent very little time in the discord yet and I thought DeWalt was a real person. LoL.😅
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hi i would like to know if using wps are good
Its 80% the person
20% the machine so just start
I have a 4core 8 thread processor and 8 gb ram and having just 1 windows virtual machine opened severely lags my computer or even freezes it completely. How is it possible to have more than 1 vm running at the same time with these pc specs?
is mac m1 16gb good for everything?
I'm going purchases a mac mini m2 pro with 32GB RAM 2TB SSD is it will help me in Hacking field or should I spend on a windows machine??
Im broke trying to build a budget pc bought a 3060 sff i5 8500 for 70$ what would be your recommendations on the gpu
Would my r7 5700u with 32gb of ram be ok to start learning and even running some VMs while studying?
Why Not?