Choosing the ideal laptop for hacking and penetration testing is a difficult process and usually depends on your specific hacking needs and tools. Are you into war driving and hacking WiFi hotspots on the run? Or maybe your laptop mostly stays home and you run time-intensive brute force attack programs? What processor and graphics technologies are your password cracking programs able to take advantage of? How often do you rely on time-memory tradeoff techniques to recover passwords? Is this your main hacking platform or do you SSH into another machine? All of these questions will be relevant to choosing the best hacking machine for you.
