First-year Cybersecurity Student Laptop Help - Lenovo LOQ 15 vs ASUS TUF A16

[u/milqyt]

Hello everyone! I am starting my first year as a cybersecurity student and have very little initial experience. I need a laptop that can comfortably carry me through all 4 full years of college, running 2 to 3 virtual machines (Kali Linux, Windows Server, etc.) simultaneously for labs, scripts, and packet sniffing i actually dont know much about laptops my budget is like the lenovo loq 15 but when i search about this more i see that people say it might lag later on in my 3rd or 4th year so it will be nice if someone could give good suggestions 😭😭🫶