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Old 04-06-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Hi,

I planning to buy a laptop this week for use with NetStumbler and Kismet. Never having really used either program before I was wondering whether there are any laptops to avoid.

Also whether there are certain features I should be looking to get.

I plan us use a Classic Gold pcmcia card, but apart from this am open to all suggestions. Budget is around $400 USD, maybe slightly more.

Thanks for any advice or recommendations!
I used a 266 mhz with 128 meg ram and 8 gig hd under Ubuntu linux and Kismet. Had plenty of power and no issues.
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