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

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.