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Gaming laptops seem relevant for VR and/or machine learning developers. I suppose for machine learning you can use cloud based GPUs but it's still not a bad ide
by kriro 10y ago
Gaming laptops seem relevant for VR and/or machine learning developers. I suppose for machine learning you can use cloud based GPUs but it's still not a bad idea to have a decent offline setup.
- syllogism 10y agoRunning 'serious' GPU experiments on your primary laptop is a pretty miserable experience. If the experiment needs a few hours to compute, you have to prevent your laptop from sleeping. I also doubt the laptop will last long if you regularly max out the GPU for 12 hours at a time. That said...Developing against a cloud machine sucks too. I think VNCing to a machine on the local network from a good ultrabook might be best.
- lucaspiller 10y ago> Developing against a cloud machine sucks too Really depends on where your cloud is in relation to you. I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop, and ping times to my workstation at home (on the other side of the city) are ~5ms.
- dagw 10y agoFor me it's never the ping times that are a problem, but bandwidth. Shuffling 50+ GB of data back and forth gets annoying very fast.
- dagw 10y agoYea we have an Alienware laptop with similar specs a work we use for demoing and testing VR projects while on the road, but day to day development in the office is generally done on workstations.