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Best Hacking Laptops2021

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Best Hacking Laptops 2021


Choosing a new Laptop is like making a commitment. You know you will spend plenty of hours in front of it before everything is set up to fulfill all your Pentesting needs.

So choosing a model that suits you best should be well researched. I spent plenty of time researching for suitable models in the past weeks and months and want to share with you what I have learned.

So first, let’s look at our requirements.

Requirements

What should our hardware specs look like for Pentesting? I assume we will use a Laptop running Windows and running Kali or whatever Distro you use in a VM. I will recommend a few Laptops suitable for running Kali bare-metal at the end of this Article.

  • MIN: 8 GB RAM // Recommended: 16GB RAM extendable to 32GB RAM.
  • MIN: i5/i7 Dual Core // Recommended: i5 or i7 Quadcore
  • GPU: Ideally Geforce 1050+ but we take Cloud Password Cracking in consideration. No Laptop GPU can compare with that.
  • Form factor: We will cover both, big, well-performing Laptops and small, portable Laptops that still perform well.
  • Battery life: Solid, for our War Driving needs
  • Network Adapter: Ideally capable of capturing packets

Alright, with all that in mind we can now look at a couple of options. Now, with the new and powerful Intel Coffee Lake Processors finding their place in the newest Laptop Models, we also want to aim for one of those if possible.

1. Alienware 17R4


Alienware laptop

Their top of the line Model Alienware 17R4 comes with everything your Hacker heart needs, but at a price.

Mostly Gaming Laptops also make good Hacking Laptops, if you don’t mind the Size.

With this model you can run several VM’s, you have a huge Hard Drive to fill with Rainbow Tables and a powerful Geforce GTX 1080 for Password Cracking.

2. Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black Edition



Acer Laptop



The Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black Edition makes our second place. It comes with a powerful i7-7700HQ Processor, 16 GB of RAM and a Geforce GTX 1060 GPU with 6GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM.

It is also a bigger sized Gaming Laptop, but if performance is your main focus, this is a model you should consider, especially because of the low Price Tag.

You can also get it with a 4k display, the question is if you need that for Pentesting. It doesn’t get all too warm under normal use, the NVMe-SSD is a good performer.




3. Razer Blade Stealth 13.3″ Ultrabook


I am particularly stoked about this one because it’s only 13.3″ and comes with an 8th Gen Intel Quad Core i7-8550U Processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. On top of that, it rocks a QHD Touchscreen.


4. Dell XPS 13 9360 Ultrabook



A classic under Pentesters, the Dell XPS Series. The newest model, the Dell XPS 13 9360Ultrabook 
comes with an 8th Gehn i7-8550U Processor, 16 GB of RAM and a fast 512 GB SSD. On top, it got a QHD+ WLED Touch Screen. So far it is the fastest Dell XPS 13 ever.













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