hi forum Could you please guide me, i am goin to buy laptop for my personal use and main purpose to buy is that i want to run GNS 3 and Vmware machine so that i can practice my ccnp labs and in future ccie labs in it with no hazel. i am confuse in the best brand, pls could you people share your experience in laptop brands and rank them for me. Toshiba Ibm dell hp fujitsu + Intel based or AMD based laptop and how much ram would be required to run the labs so that 3 to 4 routers runs simultaneously Thank you

I own 2 laptops: Lenovo T61 running Linux: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/landing_p... HP dv9000t running XP I don't think the above model is available, but this link has a number of HP laptops: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/e... I like both machines.

"i want to run GNS 3 and Vmware machine so that i can practice my ccnp labs and in future ccie labs" I have been doing an IT course that has CCNA & Microsoft courses in it. I've used my laptop for Virtual Machines and and Packet Tracer (Cisco software for network simulation similar to GNS 3) You should go for at least 2GB of ram for your laptop though, at times you will need 4 or more VPC's open which eats up RAM. I'd recommend an Intel based Laptop. Also, if you haven't used Packet Tracer before you should download it off the Cisco website when you are logged on. I haven't used GNS 3 before but I figure that since the Routers you are learning about are Cisco the best simulator should be Cisco's one. It works well for me. Good luck with the course. Mattwizz3 Gigabyte P35-DS3R E4500 @ 3.2 4GB DDR2 800 9800GT