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A comment on Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by kaladin-jasnah on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:26AM (#31098308)
Is this satire?
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by mekster on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:34AM (#31098439)
As in? I'm serious.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by kaladin-jasnah on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:51AM (#31098729)
It is definitely not easier to passthrough an NVIDIA GPU that I require for machine learning to a virtual machine on an M1 Mac versus just buying a laptop with an NVIDIA GPU. I don't even know if M1 supports eGPU, have not heard anything about it, and I doubt PCI passthrough or whatever you use for eGPUs works on macOS. Sometimes hardware does matter, and it glaringly matters (esp. w.r.t. CUDA).

Also consider gaming. Considering that GPU virtualization is not really a thing still, I cannot imagine, for example, gaming being easier on macOS, and the VM requires additional setup too.

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