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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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