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Ask HN: What is the best low power (not Mac) ML laptop?
I'm looking for a personal ML dev laptop. My Three biggest considerations are:
- Not Apple (personal choice)
- As much GPU memory as possible
- as low power (and long of battery life) as possible
Most of the time you just need to test your weights against a toy dataset so you don't need speed as much as a similar platform for what you really train on. And, of course, it needs to be a daily driver. That mainly means GPU mem just to have a batch size > 1 for testing. So, HN crowd, what is the best right now for low mid and high $$ point?
- talldayo 2y agoProbably a recent Ryzen APU would do the trick, for smaller workloads that are supported by AMD. There are rumors of Nvidia entering the SOC design game though, so you might want to wait for that to manifest before making a decision. Just sayin'.
- jmward01 2y agoThe problem is support. I am still shy of anything AMD. Pytorch is my primary toolkit and I still haven't seen many people say 'yeah, this is my daily compute and it is 100% able to hand off to a big NVIDIA GPU later'
- wmf 2y agoRyzen AI Max Pro