PC Laptop advice

[bluegargantua]

Hey,

So my company does a lot of work from home situations. They've got a VPN client to connect you to their network and then you remote desktop to the virtual machine on your at-work server and just work out of that.

I don't have a PC at home and while I suppose I could put a Windows VM on my Mac, I feel like it might be less hassle to just pick up a mid-range PC Laptop and use that (possibly also picking up a flat-screen monitor/keyboard/mouse so it's less laptoppy).

Do people have suggestiosn for a make/model of laptop? Becuase I'm really working out of my machine at work it doesn't have to be a super-beefy machine (although something mid-range would be nice). The big thing for me is that it doesn't come with a ton of crap pre-installed (I'm looking at you HP).

So if you have any suggestions, please toss them my way.

Thanks
Tom

Comments

[sben.livejournal.com]

In addition to the comments above about just using your Mac, there's a VPN client built in to more recent versions of OS X (10.5 and 10.6, perhaps earlier). It doesn't work with all VPN servers; I've found it to be much less hassle than the vendor's VPN client (Cisco's in my case).