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Looking to explore local LLMs and get into ML development.

Torn choosing between a Macbook Pro and a Razer Blade available for Cyber Monday.

M1 Max has unified memory and MPS (as well as way better battery management). The Razer Blade has a dedicated GPU with CUDA cores.

Given the current state of frameworks like PyTorch, which laptop would you get over the other and why? I’ve tried to lookup benchmarks on the two but it’s hard to compare apples to apples and would appreciate any insight. (From what I’ve read know that training models for DL is always going to be better on the cloud but I’m very interested in local model training for privacy reasons).

Thanks in advance for your input! 🙇‍♂️

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[–] SnooHesitations8849@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

A cheap macbook and a PC with a 3090 make much more sense.