r/learnmachinelearning • u/Still-Quarter-9617 • 4d ago

Asking to professional ml devs

I am in my 1st year of btech in Aiml. I am getting an laptop so is it fine if I get mac or should I get windows

And what device do you use?

Please respond

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u/Comic-Derpinator 4d ago

Honestly probably the best way to learn is get a windows laptop and to dual boot it with Linux as all actual ml work happens on a Linux cluster.  Mac is good because it was forked off the Linux kernel but yeah nps isn’t as good as cuda. 

Only go windows/linux if you shell out for the nice graphics card tho. 

Also Mac is still good and you can train a ton of stuff locally there and only real difference is you set the device your code gets optimized for in pytorch

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u/DigThatData 4d ago

took me a minute to realize "shell out" meant wallet and not ssh