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Why do you assume that software developers don't need more power and/or CUDA cores, too? Development does not only consist of web development.
by wolfgke 10y ago
Why do you assume that software developers don't need more power and/or CUDA cores, too? Development does not only consist of web development.
- oceanswave 10y agoHe said plenty of power
- acdha 10y agoHow many developers need more capacity than the new MacBook Pro but still less than the largest laptops offer? The few non-gamers I know who are still CPU/GPU-limited are using clusters of machines because no single machine is large enough and in most cases it's significantly cheaper to rent capacity for the few times when they need it rather than pay up-front for something which will be idle a fair percent of the year.
- talmand 10y agoI'm not sure I'm understanding what you are suggesting here.
- acdha 10y agoI see three potential groups of buyers: 1. People whose needs are satisfied by almost any laptop with an SSD and semi-recent CPU/GPU. 2. People who need the absolute top-end system but can fit their work on a single machine (e.g. if you had a model which uses 20GB of RAM, a 16GB machine is unsuitable but a 32GB machine is fine). 3. People who have so much data / computation that no normal computer can handle it. My gut feeling is that #1 covers most of the market and the question is really how many people fall into group #2 but not group #3, especially in the context of laptops where the ceilings are smaller on both the Mac and PC side. I would further expect that a fair number of the people in the second group are not running those workloads 24x7 and thus have a practical, often cheaper, option of renting an hour of time on AWS/Google/Azure/etc. when they need to do something and get the results faster rather than leaving their laptop running for a day or two — even the best laptop GPUs are smaller capacity than what you can rent on a server.
- module0000 10y ago"Web developers" should compile a browser(like Chromium) every so often, to provide themselves a reminder of the massive gap between what they do, and what "developers" do. Those CUDA cores and more CPU are very important to non-web-developers.
- softweyr 10y agoI've never needed a CUDA core at all, but then again I'm only a lowly kernel and network stack developer.