Hey epixoip, I kind of hoped that you would reply, so thank you. 
What you say makes sense, and even if it turned out that I didn't use the Clevo laptop for hashcat, I still would have a pretty good laptop with which to run VMs quickly on, a powerful machine with no arseing around. If we could actually get some use out of it whilst on site as well, that would make the company happy - I've just started at a new place and they're keen to build the security function up, and the firm feels that being able to offer captured hashes and in addition a cracked hash would be a very strong message. Not to mention fun to learn more about.
Clevo still do the P650 series - can I assume that the thermal zones you mention will hold across that range? A very competitive price too:
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/7977/
Now I just need to convince everyone that it's a good idea. Haha.
What you say makes sense, and even if it turned out that I didn't use the Clevo laptop for hashcat, I still would have a pretty good laptop with which to run VMs quickly on, a powerful machine with no arseing around. If we could actually get some use out of it whilst on site as well, that would make the company happy - I've just started at a new place and they're keen to build the security function up, and the firm feels that being able to offer captured hashes and in addition a cracked hash would be a very strong message. Not to mention fun to learn more about.
Clevo still do the P650 series - can I assume that the thermal zones you mention will hold across that range? A very competitive price too:
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/7977/
Now I just need to convince everyone that it's a good idea. Haha.