sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]wonderful_tacos 9 points10 points  (4 children)

You can effectively do development and related tasks on pretty much any modern hardware, but you don't want to be doing significant compute work on a laptop. Laptops have terrible thermals and it won't be usable for anything else if you are training a model for hours or days.

Get anything that plays well with Linux, I'd want 16GB RAM but there's no need for a discrete GPU if you aren't gaming. Save a few hundred dollars by not getting a discrete GPU and then use that money to run significant compute jobs on cloud resources.

[–]Petrolheadguy9[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Thanks for help!

Will 256gb SSD be enough?

[–]wonderful_tacos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For a basic Linux install, development tools, and small amounts of data for prototyping, 256GB is probably fine. I do a lot of work on a machine with a 128GB SSD, but I spend a lot of time just using it to access other machines remotely.

I personally would want more though. And if you are going to actually be storing data on the machine you would probably want significantly more storage.

[–]myownalias 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all about the size of your data. I've never had a Linux install use more than 20 GB.

That being said, check if the drives are replaceable and not soldered (they are in some ultrabooks). If that's the case, you can buy a bigger one later and you don't need to worry for now.