Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machine Learning?

Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by wodenokoto on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:35PM (#20386986)

I'd get a MacBook Air and learn on colab or Kaggle kernel.

With the money left over from the price difference between air and maxed-out 15" MBP, you can buy extra hours of GPU online, or just get a cheap box to put in your closet.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by vojta_letal on Monday July 08, 2019 @05:59PM (#20387177)

You can get a cheap gaming laptop with 1070GTX for the price of Air and have Ubuntu on it. Moreover price of cloud minutes with GPU quickly stacks up.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by stuntkite on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:04PM (#20387215)

Yeah. Second this. Apple is useless for machine learning. Get anything that can legit run CUDA and has Linux on it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by coralreef on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:07PM (#20387241)

You can use external GPUs

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by vojta_letal on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:39AM (#20390466)

Wich gets like crazy expensive.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by coralreef on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @04:14PM (#20396112)

An enclosure + GPU?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by ConfusedDog on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:51PM (#20388638)

I have considered Air. Only thing I don’t like about it is dual-core. I know ML use GPU, but come on... dual core...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Macbook Pro or Gaming Laptop Better for Machin... by codingslave on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:48PM (#20388073)

Google colab is really slow and unreliable.

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