MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future

Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by mtw on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:47AM (#12950499)

One major let-down for me in macbook pros is the lack of a nvidia GPU. You can't do serious machine learning on those laptops. I actually had to buy a previous-gen macbook pro

I'm not sure what to do if I had to get a new laptop. On one hand, I have a few iOS projects, and on the other hand, it's always nice to run locally and quickly a few deep learning algos.

The limited connections are also a let down

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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by terhechte on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:01AM (#12950627)

There're some external GPU enclosures with Mac-Compatible Nvidia cards that connect via USB-3. None of that is officially supported, and it is expensive, but based on cursory searches I did, it seems to work for people. It's still expensive and can only be used when you're at a desk, but those are imho fair compromises.

Now, I'd love for Apple to release an official external GPU (like Blazer did with the Blazer Stealth) but I highly doubt they'd do it.

https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox2s-egpu.html/

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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by jsjohnst on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:45AM (#12951036)

With Thunderbolt 3 (via the four USB-C ports), you could quite easily run desktop class GPUs in a relatively small enclosure. There's a couple of them previously available on Amazon, but I'm sure the offerings will skyrocket after the first of the year given the new laptop.

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Re:MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future by drvdevd on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:57AM (#12950593)

Interesting point I had never considered, thanks. Yet another reason why I'll probably be purchasing a PC running Linux as my next laptop.

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