Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
by nostrademons on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:00AM
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You typically wouldn't use a Macbook for that though. If you want to do AI research, buy a gaming rig (< $1000) or rent a cloud GPU instance and then remote desktop or SSH in from the laptop. Then you get the portability and battery life of the laptop, and once you start training you can put it to sleep and the remote instance will just keep humming away.
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
by thrtythreeforty on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:16AM
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Do these work on Linux? Or is it a limitation of the silicon?
Losing external GPU support with apple silicon has become a major deal. In the age of AI tools like stable diffusion, performance per watt matters less if you lose the capability to scale up these kind of workloads. Gurman's report about the mac pro tower gave us reason to hope on this (that the upcoming mac pro will have eGPU support), but when it comes to MacBooks, let alone the pros, no one knows when/if the support will arrive and when/if nvidia support will be added.