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Re:On 2016 Apple: What do “Pro” users want? by lanna on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:02PM (#12971483)
why is discrete graphics required for software development? i spend most on my time typing text or using the terminal, intel iris is more than enough.
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Re:On 2016 Apple: What do “Pro” users want? by atemerev on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:06PM (#12971524)
If you work with machine learning / data science, you need GPU for accelerated computing. Yes, I can train my models on servers rented at Amazon (which I used to do), but those are expensive.
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Re:On 2016 Apple: What do “Pro” users want? by dagw on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:26PM (#12971718)
For me it's not even that. I just want to be able to develop and test my CUDA code on my dev machine. It doesn't even have to be super fast.
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