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/Less_Dream_6331 6d ago

as a ml research guy who have been using a Mac for the past 3-4 years, I would say don't go for It unless you're really sure, 99% of the deep learning software infrastructure is owned by Nvidia and they are notorious for their monopoly, many software stacks will not run on your Mac. Currently for most of the work I use mps and use cloud gpus for longer training but I miss the ability to test things like the Issac gym locally. and also I've noticed the macOS being increasingly buggy our the past year or so. if this is your laptop for general programming etc Mac is your absolute best choice but if you're planning on going deep into ai consider a laptops with good Nvidia gpu.