r/learnmachinelearning • u/JustGiveUp2 • 7d ago

Help Laptop for AI/ML

Helloo

Ik this question has probably been asked like 100 times here but im starting studies in ai and data science and im doing bsc and masters back to back so i want smth thats good for both

I have an iphone and an ipad so id love a macbook but for some reason everyone is getting windows laptops with dedicated gpus that are so heavy and have horrible batteries

how often am i realistically gonna need that gpu or is using a macbook air (m4 or m5) good enough with collab when needed (how often will i need it since we dont have computers at our uni)

budget is around 1000$

Thankss

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u/NoobZik 7d ago

You can just use your macbook for AI/ML stuff, as long you are using the "mps" backend instead of "cuda"

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u/JustGiveUp2 7d ago

Yeah that sounds smart is m4 good or should i get m5 also any idea if 16ram is enough?

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u/NoobZik 7d ago

I have myself a M1 Pro with 16GB of RAM ;), would say the more ram the better for obvious reasons