Bought a mini laptop

[Dave Darling]

I just picked up this mini laptop off of Amazon, it is 8-inches across and will fit in your pocket, love this, I am going to load it with dual-boot between Windows 11 and Kali Linux and I am going to use it for penetration testing. It is pretty powerful, 3.4 GHz CPU and 12 GB of RAM. It has a solid feel to it, weights about 1 pound. The display also swivels around so it will double as a tablet PC.

 

[Lost4words]

Nice.

I prefer a bigger screen these days as my eyes are not as good as they used to be...

 

[AlexB23]

I just picked up this mini laptop off of Amazon, it is 8-inches across and will fit in your pocket, love this, I am going to load it with dual-boot between Windows 11 and Kali Linux and I am going to use it for penetration testing. It is pretty powerful, 3.4 GHz CPU and 12 GB of RAM. It has a solid feel to it, weights about 1 pound. The display also swivels around so it will double as a tablet PC.
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It is unbranded. Hopefully your notebook laptop lasts long. If you got a more powerful laptop, first thing I recommend to install is a locally run AI, known as Mistral 7B, but I am afraid that your new laptop would not be able to run it. My 6 year old laptop struggles running it also.

A more realistic thing to install that does not use AI is Firefox, and the addon "uBlock Origin", which blocks ads on the internet.

 

[nhaas11]

How many Cores?

 

[Dave Darling]

How many Cores?

4 cores I think

 

[peaceful-forest]

Will you let us know if the dual boot installation was successful? I've always heard that doing dual boot with Windows 11 was very difficult to do.

 

[JesseBassett]

Yes please let us know about the dual boot thing. I am curious myself. Whenever I tried to dual boot Win 11 & another system all I got were headaches. Good luck!

 

[nhaas11]

I have gone away from dual boot. if you have a good pc install Proxmox, then install your OS's of choice on Proxmox. I have moved all of my work stuff onto Windows 10 VM recently. When work is done i close RDP, and dont worry about work.

Now the reason for no-dual boot. I ran ubuntu, SuSE, Windows 10 are various times as dual boot. With upgrades you can get rewrites of grub causing my dual boot to fail...maybe its me, maybe its not. I think all occasions I was able to recover. Dual Boot can be a hassle.....

 

[elytron]

Your new micro laptop looks slick Dave, am also interested in how well it will dual boot 11. Loading Kali on there might be fun. Be careful though and don't get into trouble.

 

[JesseBassett]

@nhaas11 ,
I tried proxmox but did not like it. I am glad you found a reliable solution! Enjoy your mini pc! I just bought a chromebook myself here.