In Which a Hardware Platform was Chosen, Part 2
How Much Computer Do You Need? I buy computers based on best price per pound. This is part two of two posts about how I decided on what kind of computing platform to use for my deep learning studies. If you haven't read it yet, the previous blog was In Which a Hardware Platform was Chosen, Part 1 ( link ), where I talked about the decision between cloud and personal device, and between desktop and laptop computers. Laptops comes in many shapes and sizes nowadays, with different trade-offs in each design. Due to the GPU requirement, tiny laptops such as ultrabooks are out of the picture, as they do not have the space or the heat dissipation capacity of larger laptops. As this laptop is going to be my desktop replacement and my main computer, I wanted as much of a behemeth of a machine as possible, with the biggest screen and the highest specs available for a CPU and GPU that is within a reasonable price point. The largest laptops in production have 17" screens...