Hey Everyone,
I've just started getting in to pentesting and although watching videos on how to do pentesting, I'd prefer to have my own machine with Kali installed that I can practice different stuff with. The problem is I'm a student with a very tight budget and don't have heaps of money to buy a brand-new, i7 8gb ram computer. (I can't use my current computer because it's a school-issued laptop and I don't have admin access to install VirtualBox. I've installed Qemu but I'm not too sure how to use it yet, I'll research a bit more before purchasing something).
These are my options:
1. I've got a spare computer with a broken screen, it will cost about $100 to get it fixed. I can just use a monitor but the problem is I can't access the bios when using a monitor to install Kali and it's only an i3 with 4gb ram, probably not enough to run a decent vm.
2. Purchase a second-hand laptop. I've been searching around, found a few good laptops that are equal specs as my spare laptop and cost the same. I'm just very cautious when I'm buying second-hand tech stuff because I'm not sure how the other people have used them in the past.
3. Buying a brand-new android tablet. I've heard of people using android tablets for pentesting so I was wondering if it was worth it to get an android tablet and install Kali or whatever on to it to practice pentesting.
What do you guys think?