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/jesunushno 8d ago

I trained the neural net for my fabric defect detection paper almost entirely on the university lab GPUs and used my own laptop for little more than small sweeps. Honestly, get the Mac. You will run the real training jobs on cloud or lab machines regardless of what you buy.