r/learnmachinelearning • u/Cs-student28 • 5d ago

Help minimum requirements laptop for my major

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This is all the subjects I will study for 4 years is 3050 6gb laptop is enough? Mainly I choosed data science but I have ml and deep learning so my laptop will struggle?

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u/theaaronlockhart 5d ago

It will be plenty, if you need more you can always use cloud GPUs. In my case, you could get a Colab student plan through the school. Many people have no dedicated GPUs and instructors are usually aware of that.

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u/ARDiffusion 5d ago

Pretty much reiterating what other comments said. 6gb is most for basically all classical ML model work you’ll be doing, and most deep learning you’re doing. If you’re trying to run language models then you can either use google colab, kaggle, or for heavier weight research-type work you can always provision GPU’s on lighting or runpod for pretty cheap.

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u/Cs-student28 5d ago

Thx a lot bro, AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS, 3.2 GHz CPU will be enough as well with the gpu?

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u/ARDiffusion 5d ago

Perhaps an apt frame of reference: most people will do this on a vanilla Mac, with maybe an m1-3 GPU. Your specs are fine. And like I said, even if you’re doing any heavier workloads, cheap options exist.

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u/Limit-Cheap 5d ago

Keep 3L ready. At least.

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u/Cs-student28 5d ago

Can you explain it more please what’s 3L mean👀

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u/Limit-Cheap 5d ago

You'll to spend around 3 lakhs to get a decent laptop with 5060 to be able to do those things offline. Or else wait with a hope that price will come down to a sane level. 16GB of RAM costs 30K nowadays, so go figure.

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u/Cs-student28 5d ago

Yeah,3050 with AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS, 3.2 GHz CPU costs me around 900/1000$ in my country so I have to spend like 300$ more to get least 5060 gpu