It is not what you have, it is what you can do with what you have.

    Words of encouragement. Always have them ready to give to others even when you are feeling down and out.

You will need the following for this:
1. A laptop with a minimum of: two cores, 1GB RAM, 120GB disk space, amd64/x86_64 processor.
2. The desire to learn.

Wait...
1. The desire to learn
And....
2. The laptop as listed above or a desktop with similar specifications.