# Laptop recommedation for service provider labs on gns3?

**URL:** https://forum.networklessons.com/t/laptop-recommedation-for-service-provider-labs-on-gns3/5677
**Category:** Building a Home Lab
**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/laptop-recommedation-for-service-provider-labs-on-gns3/5677 "2018-12-09T16:43:53Z")
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### Author: ![Sameer603](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@Sameer603](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/Sameer603)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/laptop-recommedation-for-service-provider-labs-on-gns3/5677/1 "2018-12-09T16:43:53Z")

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i am planning to buy laptop for gns3 labs for cisco service provider topics , at min 4 routers to be simulated at a time like ASR9K . And also for virtualization applications like vm ware any suggestions . My budget is around 1400$ .

Thanks in advance.  
Regards ,  
Sameer.

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### Author: ![lagapidis](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/user_avatar/forum.networklessons.com/lagapidis/32/4949_2.png) [@lagapidis](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/lagapidis)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/laptop-recommedation-for-service-provider-labs-on-gns3/5677/2 "2018-12-17T16:07:37Z")

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Hello Sameer

The best place to see if your requirements are sufficient for GNS3 is at the GNS3 site. Here they specify minimum, recommended and optimal requirements. Take a look at the following link:

[https://docs.gns3.com/1PvtRW5eAb8RJZ11maEYD9\_aLY8kkdhgaMB0wPCz8a38/index.html#h.8xsi1lwnavp0](https://docs.gns3.com/1PvtRW5eAb8RJZ11maEYD9_aLY8kkdhgaMB0wPCz8a38/index.html#h.8xsi1lwnavp0)

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz

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### Author: ![ccnp.lab.00](https://cdn-forum.networklessons.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@ccnp.lab.00](https://forum.networklessons.com/u/ccnp.lab.00)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.networklessons.com/t/laptop-recommedation-for-service-provider-labs-on-gns3/5677/3 "2019-11-26T08:31:26Z")

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Times are changing my friend, and I think the certification updates from Cisco are starting to reflect that , it’s a Brave New World for us networkers! Anyway look at Google Cloud Platform, you can do a lot with it and EVE-NG for under $400 (price of VIRL images) and a subscription to Network Lessons 😀