Burner laptops for DEF CON
Hacker summer camp (Defcon, Blackhat, BSidesLV) is upon us, so I thought I'd write up some quick notes about bringing a "burner" laptop. Chrome is your best choice in terms of security, but I need Windows/Linux tools, so I got a Windows laptop.I chose the Asus e200ha for $199 from Amazon with free (and fast) shipping. There are similar notebooks with roughly the same hardware and price from other manufacturers (HP, Dell, etc.), so I'm not sure how this compares against those other ones. However, it fits my needs as a "burner" laptop, namely:
- cheap
- lasts 10 hours easily on battery
- weighs 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram)
- 11.6 inch and thin
- 4 gigs of RAM
- 32 gigs of eMMC flash memory
- quad core 1.44 GHz Intel Atom CPU
- Windows 10
- free Microsoft Office 365 for one year
- good, large keyboard
- good, large touchpad
- USB 3.0
- microSD
- WiFi ac
- no fans, completely silent
- The Atom CPU is slow, thought it's only noticeable when churning through heavy webpages. Adblocking addons or Brave are a necessity. Most things are usably fast, such as using Microsoft Word.
- Crappy sound and Continue reading

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