Working from home computer requirments ?

Why are you buying your own computer?

There's a number of issues that arise such as possible transfer of virus or malware from your personal asset to the company network & also breech of GDPR by transferring sensitive company owned information to a personal asset (not even going into the IP issues).

Company should be supplying you with the hardware required to do your job, particularly if they are moving you to home based.

Also, look forward to an increase in your electricity & heating costs & look into wether or not you now need to have liability insurance.

For what it's worth, my own company supplied the laptop but nothing else, had to go out to buy my own monitor, keyboard & mouse & shortly buying a desk.

If you will be working entirely off a VPN and using remote applications over terminal-server, then 4GB of RAM and a celeron will suffice.

If you're planning on doing any other work on your own PC such as office applications etc, then no - that spec is completely insufficient. Having a reasonable virus-scanner installed on that system would cripple the performance leading to significant issues.

I'd suggest that 8GB to 16GB would be a requirement with an i3 or greater CPU.

a celeron processor can barely open excel, also 4gb memory is not sufficient for work and combined with the Celeron will cause you pain . Your job need to buy you a new one

How do companys expect to get away with this sort of thing? They would never have dreamt of asking people in an office to supply their own laptop, but many of them seem to think its fine to ask this now the office is shut down. It's nonsense op, tell them to provide you with a laptop. They're already saving a fortune by closing or downsizing the office.

I wouldn’t usually be one to “employer bash” but, unless there are some circumstances that the OP hasn’t mentioned, I would definitely be looking for a new role. I’m surprised that this is actually legal!

Seems absolutely crazy, you could be installing any software or malware on your own laptop, your employer is obviously not too security conscious.

Not sure where I saw it but somebody had been hacked and their screen recorded while using a VM client. Somebody went through the recordings and had OCR'd the documents they had worked on including very confidential client information. But most places have given clients basic VPN access, which in itself is not very secure.

BYOD should never EVER be used in a production environment. It's ok for accessing webmail etc, but should never connect to the LAN

I think an Asus E410 is a good one.

There's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best laptop for working from home will vary depending on your individual needs and preferences. However, I would recommend a laptop with at least an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD.

That should give you enough power to run multiple programs and browsers at once, and the SSD will ensure that your machine is fast and responsive.

I use a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, I believe this has been discontinued already and it works perfectly fine for typical office tasks. For example with me, it's back and forth emails with our customers and fulfillment of orders for our customers. But of course, there are plenty of other factors to consider when choosing a laptop for working from home, so be sure to do your research and find the one that best suits your needs.