Don’t Buy a Mac for Cybersecurity! | KM Reacts 

At the end of the day, they can all do the job and personal preference matters most!

same here

Id save the momey and try to use the PC for now. Something like 85% of enterprises use Windows so its a must on how to navigate it well. Sorry this is so late!

@@Kyle.Marvin no it's not for me thx😁

Hey thanks for sharing the valuable insight!

This is someone asking for advice. His advice was, in this circumstance, to not buy it. College student who saved up for years needs to squeeze every peny they can get. Even if the VM thing is out of date, Apple devices cost more.

As a software engineer who is frequently forced to work with Macs, I can tell you in no uncertain terms that you are wrong. "great virtualisation options" -- bullshit. Mac virtualization may have been usable back in the era of Intel macs, but with Apple silicon, it's basically too slow to be useful. As far as VMWare being free. It's free as in your first bag of crack. Have you seen what they did with the licensing for their customers who were paying them? Beyond extortion. There's no reason to think that they won't do this to their "free" tier users too. If you're gullible enough to believe a tech company when they offer you something free, maybe you deserve what you get, but I can't let you post it for the unsuspecting, younger, and or new to the industry people. This is the worst advice I've heard in a long time, when kvm/Qemu is free and always has been and always will be. And you can run it on Linux which is also free and has the best security posture out of the box of any common OS. Please, people, use your brain. Definitely don't be fooled by OP. Also, don't be fooled by this video's creator. And especially don't be fooled by Ryan. Yikes. So many bad ideas packed so densely.

@@jxtq27 What utter gibberish. Virtualisation is great on a Mac and even better on Arm Macs. Parallels and VMware Fusion have the best performance by far but Qemu based apps are performant enough for most people. Shows how much you know because VMWare Fusion PRO was made free this week by Broadcom for non enterprise use which being a student would certainly fall under. Broadcom have messed up the VMWare licensing elsewhere though, my renewals from gone up roughly 300% to a few million in the last 3 months. Im under no illusions as to why Fusion Pro is now free, if you use it as a student or for a private project then you are more likely to want it at work too. It still makes a quality piece of software free for the majority of people. Im sorry you can't get your Mac to work for you, while I can't speak to what you try to work on I know that my user base which is cyber security teams and software engineers prefer MacOS over Linux and Windows at a nearly 2:1 ratio. It looks like you are as ill informed and as out of date as the original video.

I'm sorry that you understand computers so poorly, but honestly I don't have the time and energy to educate someone as rude as you about ISAs or what cyber security professionals do, and why those factors make Macs unsuitable for a lot of work that isn't targeting Macs (or possibly Graviton). I hope in your next life you get intelligence and charisma.

This is my first video watching him. Ill keep that in mind!

He’s also drank the US imperial koolaid and does not look at the Palestinian Genocide with an unbiased view

Depends on your workloads and needs. For instance, I keep 2 4gb vms up all the time, and I do video editing on top of that, so I hit 32gb ram and it tends to be a bit overkill but 16gb wasnt quite enough but is probably fine for most folks. For storage, I sit at 500gb and use externals/cloud for backups and clean out old useless files. My vms dont require much storage, otherwise a lot of folks prefer a 1tb storage. All depends on your needs!

Never heard of them before this and looking over their OS, just makes me wonder why you wouldnt install linux instead on any laptop

@@Kyle.Marvin System 76 have pre-installed POP_OS, and Librum 14 laptop.

Haha I also prefer windows and Linux

Those MAC keyboards are ASMR material for sure!

Spot on haha

You're not wrong. Cyber folks NEED linux skills...