hi there!!
Need your help/suggestions in shortlisting a laptop.
The laptop will be used by me and my younger brother. We are on a very tight budget (around 600-650USD).
Purpose:
learn networking (run GNS3 on VMs) for cisco CCNA certification.
MCTS certification - run virtual machines - red hat linux/windows servers/windows clients/domain controllers
little bit of programming - web development/PHP/MySQL
Run some analytics software like R/SAS/SPSS
No gaming on the system
We are planning to connect the laptop to an external monitor to go through the training videos on one screen and learn/work on the other.
We have zeroed in on the following laptop:
http://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-esse...NWAM&ref=7f6ae9e1-fa3f-4299-bae4-e67cabfee086
Would this be a good buy?
or should we buy an intel based laptop like the one below and upgrade the RAM to 8GB
http://www.ebay.in/itm/Asus-K55A-La...48482664?pt=IN_PC_Laptops&hash=item3cd39f7d68
Need your help/suggestions in shortlisting a laptop.
The laptop will be used by me and my younger brother. We are on a very tight budget (around 600-650USD).
Purpose:
learn networking (run GNS3 on VMs) for cisco CCNA certification.
MCTS certification - run virtual machines - red hat linux/windows servers/windows clients/domain controllers
little bit of programming - web development/PHP/MySQL
Run some analytics software like R/SAS/SPSS
No gaming on the system
We are planning to connect the laptop to an external monitor to go through the training videos on one screen and learn/work on the other.
We have zeroed in on the following laptop:
http://www.flipkart.com/lenovo-esse...NWAM&ref=7f6ae9e1-fa3f-4299-bae4-e67cabfee086
Would this be a good buy?
or should we buy an intel based laptop like the one below and upgrade the RAM to 8GB
http://www.ebay.in/itm/Asus-K55A-La...48482664?pt=IN_PC_Laptops&hash=item3cd39f7d68