From what I've read you want a good Nvidia GPU for machine learning so you can run cuda. Now you can rent GPU instances from AWS but it's probably cheaper to bu

From what I've read you want a good Nvidia GPU for machine learning so you can run cuda. Now you can rent GPU instances from AWS but it's probably cheaper to buy your own system if you are doing it often enough. As others said you may want to consider a more powerful desktop machine with 2x Nvidia GPU and just network that up to your laptop to offload workloads. Personally I'm going to try AWS route first to see how much I enjoy the machine learning route. Then I can make a better decision without dropping a few thousand first. I'm running MacBook pro 15 with touch bar. I prefer the older models that still have real USB ports. I also really dislike the new keyboard and giant mousepad. Never use the touch bar but that's just me. One last note... On new macs the hardware is impossible to modify. Hard drive and ram are soldered into the boards...