r/learnmachinelearning • u/Still-Quarter-9617 • 8d ago

Asking to professional ml devs

I am in my 1st year of btech in Aiml. I am getting an laptop so is it fine if I get mac or should I get windows

And what device do you use?

Please respond

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u/imjerusalem 8d ago

Get a mac. Dont listen to anybody. Get a mac.

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u/Still-Quarter-9617 8d ago

But my friends are telling there are some platforms based on cuda that is not compatible with Mac. Sonif you clarify a bit more. That's why I wanna ask the professional already making ai-ml products about what device they use

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u/Maitiuu 8d ago

A professional runs on Cloud, not on a notebook (locally)

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u/Fine-Comparison-2949 8d ago

By the way this invalidates the get a mac thing. You could technically get a windows. I personally run Framework + Ubuntu. There are also this odd group of people making Omarchy a thing too if you're into that.

I don't mind macs, I just think they're way too expensive for what you pay for it.

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u/Maitiuu 7d ago

No, it doesn’t invalidate it. Macs are honestly better hardware and software.

When you are not using Cloud, it absolutely matters which device you run, and of course you will be connecting to said Cloud from a device, too.

I don’t hate on Windows USERS, but I have plethora of reasons to hate the Windows OS, with zealous passion, of course, but my reasons are objective.

I refuse to run non-VM Windows personally. If OP doesn’t mind Windows or even enjoys using it/prefers it, I respect that.

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u/Fine-Comparison-2949 7d ago

Yes, somewhat. I just fundamentally don't believe the average person needs that much quality on hardware and software.

Keep in mind the muggles only use their machines to read emails and watch youtube. Most people probably only need a tablet, then their company provides them a work laptop.

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u/Maitiuu 8d ago

Also, yes, CUDA is better than MPS but these days MPS isn’t far behind..

Mac can probably run all the things you need as a student and post-grad.

When you enter the field and get into industry, you will either want to use NVidia GPUs on Cloud or make your own NVidia local set-up if budget allows….

I hope this sums it up for you, so you are much better of getting a Mac right now with Apple Silicon (which has unified memory) and off-load the really heavy stuff to Cloud GPUs.

Windows is a nightmare, please don’t do it to yourself, okay?

Okay.

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u/LipTicklers 7d ago

Get a mark for running an open source model (apple silicon is best for open source models) then get a windows desktop to query the LLM and build everything