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It sounds like the next Mac Pro still won't handle ML workloads in a meaningful way, but it will have a keyboard with a touchbar that works with Garage Band. Pa
by rch 9y ago
It sounds like the next Mac Pro still won't handle ML workloads in a meaningful way, but it will have a keyboard with a touchbar that works with Garage Band. Pass.
- saagarjha 9y agoYou might get external GPU support if you're trying to do ML.
- rch 9y agoThen I'll stick with a laptop. Probably my first non-MPB in over a decade.
- ellisv 9y agoI disagree. Do you really want to be training large models locally? The effort for Apple to optimize the Mac for ML is not worth it (for anyone). The cloud is cheap and ubiquitous.
- ericd 9y agoWhich cloud provider? When I last ran the numbers, 1080 Ti cards paid for themselves pretty quickly vs Amazon's ML instances if you're using them regularly. Also, you never have to remember to shut off your instances. I've never done ML professionally, though, so it may be a totally different use case that you're thinking about.