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  • MattMillz@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldLaptop
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    1 year ago

    Just my suggestion/guide, note I am only saying Intel because where I am there’s a large amount of ex government/school/company disposal laptops that are Intel. Look for an laptop with at least 4 gb ram. The more ram the better, like 8gb. You definitely won’t need alot of ram for internet and email but more allows it to be stable. For CPU Intel then a i5 would be okay. An i7 that’s a few years old would be great. If newer an i3 is fine but I personally think older i3s are a bit slow. For hard drive you need only a small hard drive like 200 gb, you can use external usbs later. If possible get a solid state drive ssd any size for the speed





  • I actually use virtual box as my work pc. So my work and personal is separated.
    I can easily backup/snapshot my work machine or move my work VM to another physical machine. Same using a VM to run any archived games you might find online that may have hidden malware that kills your main machine. Connecting to work VPN within a VM and free to listen to music streams or Netflix in my main desktop without receiving any angry IT emails from work. Because my main laptop(win8) is now overdue for replacement I am thinking to install Linux and VirtualBox and just run it as a VM server.