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Or 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.



That 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.


If 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.


I'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


But at that price now you're paying as much as the laptop and getting near-zero portability.


And getting significantly more performance because those components can actually be cooled properly.


I 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.


But you get bigger fans and heatsinks.




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