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In this particular use case, I would heartily recommend the Zephyrus G14. It can come with a RTX 2060 (Max Q / low voltage) which supports CUDA; as well as Ryz
by winter_blue 6y ago
In this particular use case, I would heartily recommend the Zephyrus G14.
It can come with a RTX 2060 (Max Q / low voltage) which supports CUDA; as well as Ryzen 9 4900HS, which was the fastest mobile CPU until the 5000 series mobile Ryzen came out.
The 2060 + 4900HS has gone on sale at Best Buy for $1199 multiple times late last year (just check slickdeals).
I think it’s absolute steal of a machine for that price. Not to mention that it’s beautifully built, is lightweight, has an amazing matte color accurate screen, etc.
There’s also a fan sub for this particular laptop with over 13k subscribers (as of today) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/
- sgillen 6y agoNo doubt it's a good laptop. However I would recommend anyone looking at laptops with machine learning in mind seriously consider a cheaper / less powerful laptop, and to do their training remotely on either on a workstation or in someones cloud.
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- adgjlsfhk1 6y agoOr just build a cheap desktop with a gpu. rtx 2060 + nvme SSD + any cpu is pretty good for most ML, and will only cost $800 or so.
- rileymat2 6y agoThat is easy to say, but good luck finding a RTX 2060 at a reasonable price. I have been trying for a month and a half, and almost all graphics cards are not available.
- mehrdada 6y agoIf you are in the US, you can easily buy a prebuilt machine that comes with RTX2060 for $1100-1200. Check Dell/Lenovo or Costco. Buying the card independently is pretty much impossible/uneconomical. If you don't want the rest of it, simply list the remains of the system with as a cheap PC with integrated GPU.
- Dylan16807 6y agoBut at that price now you're paying as much as the laptop and getting near-zero portability.
- adrianN 6y agoBut you get bigger fans and heatsinks.
- izacus 6y agoAnd getting significantly more performance because those components can actually be cooled properly.
- winter_blue 6y agoI think if someone really needed the performance, they'd be using some much more powerful than the RTX 2060. However, if your goal is just to have a machine on which you can actually test your CUDA code, then the Zephyris G14 laptop is perfect. It's portable, has a nice screen, etc.
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoI'd recommend against Dell. A better option would be to purchase a gaming rig and install a flavour of linux on it. There's a video series from LinusMediaGroup that investigated different OEMs, Dell ended up overcharging/scamming them for services they didn't ask for and gave worse performance [1]. [1]https://youtu.be/Go5tLO6ipxw?t=73 https://youtu.be/Go5tLO6ipxw?t=73