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So the top of the line specs get you: * 2.4GHz 8‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz * 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory * AMD Radeo
by alvern 7y ago
So the top of the line specs get you:
* 2.4GHz 8‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz
* 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
* AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 memory
* 8TB SSD storage
for $6099USD.
I wonder how it will handle the thermals.
- corrigible 7y agoI have a similarly-spec'd System76 Oryx Pro that cost less than half. No soldered DIMM's either :)
- aroch 7y agoYou really don't though? The top of the line comprable configuration has a significantly worse display, 75% of the SSD storage (that's also significantly slower), a worse graphics card and costs ~$4700.
- mdemare 7y agoAccording to the System76 site, they charge $1798 just for the SSD.
- joshuakarjala 7y agoNot saying it completely makes up for difference in price - but there is no way I'm buying a new laptop with 1080p screen
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- faizshah 7y agoHow is the trackpad on there? I bought a thinkpad since at least the keyboard is as good as my mbp 2012 but the trackpad is horrible.
- alecco 7y agoFor reference, a Dell Inspiron (~$400) can have a Intel Core 10th gen (+50% L1/L2 and AVX512).
- nik736 7y agoThey have a much lower TDP though, so they aren't comparable. There is no 10th gen yet that fits the TDP of the 16 inch MBP.
- 1_player 7y agoWith 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. And a low res 768p display.
- alecco 7y agoUpgradable, upgradable. And I only see 1080p for the 15" even for the cheaper ones. I'm outside US, though.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoSo another 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and a better display for $2000? That does not seem like a great bargain.
- AtlasLion 7y agoOr you could get a thinkpad p52 with xeon CPU & 128GB RAM. Edit: also comes with 2NVME slots and a sata one. You could have 6TB on it or even more
- baybal2 7y ago> for $6099USD. I wonder how it will handle the thermals 45W is easily doable, gaming notebook vendors can easily get up to 100W in a mobile package. Apple and other "major brands" had a string of borderline laughable engineering mistakes over the past 5 years. For example, in their latest 12 inch Macbook, they simply put a blower to work as an exhaust fan, but then forgot that the keyboard membrane has no sealing just above it.
- asdf21 7y agoWhere do you read about stuff like that, out of curiosity?
- baybal2 7y agoWell, I work in an engineering company
- ucha 7y agoI thought the 12 inch Macbook had completely passive cooling, with no blower nor fan.
- baybal2 7y agoSorry, 2018 Mac Book Air
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoI thought the 12" macbook does not have a fan?
- faizshah 7y agoWhat is the state of deep learning on AMD? Is this GPU usable with pytorch?
- dharma1 7y agoPretty bad. There is pytorch for rocm (AMD's CUDA emulation) but I don't think anyone actually uses it. https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/pytorch/issues https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/pytorch/issues I don't think you'll be doing much local ML work on this laptop
- faizshah 7y agoDarn looks like im stuck with colab. Well at least I can use dask on the bus :)
- jspisak 7y agoYeah, generally a cloud based approach to training models is better than on your mac. AMD folks have been working on RoCM for some time and it works reasonably well for common models but the AMD GPU HW isn't pervasive like Nvidia GPUs in places like AWS. If you are looking at using Colab for prototyping, you can also try TPUs which are now supported for PyTorch. Here is the link some additional info including some Colab NBs: https://github.com/pytorch/xla https://github.com/pytorch/xla