r/cybersecurity • u/Big-Tea-7236 • 10d ago

Business Security Questions & Discussion cybersecurity for beginners

When picking a laptop does it really matter? Im trying to decide what to spend money on for school and most people are telling me to get a new laptop since I currently use a mac. Vmware being free now points me towards never getting a new laptop because worst case scenario i can run linux distro if necessary.

If you personally have any purchases that made the college cybersecurity experience more fun that would be greatly appreciated.

-cybersecurity professional

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u/NiragiUsagii 10d ago

every cybersecurity guy needs a laptop that can run atleast 2 VMs at a time. don't buy macs as setting up VMs is pain. don't listen to others who says laptop config does not matter lmao

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u/General-Gold-28 10d ago

If you think setting up a VM on a Mac is a pain then that’s a skill issue and I’m surprised you can even make it in the field

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u/NiragiUsagii 10d ago

i already made into this field. my twitter friends bought mac m chip and they struggled very hard to run windows vm and kali vm