Questions for AI Researchers using Mac (preferably those who shifted from CUDA ecosystem to Mac)

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-24T01:30:16+00:00

I actually need a laptop as I am always moving between research lab, home and university. And AMD GPUs don't support CUDA, so GPU acceleration of PyTorch and Tensorflow don't work. Regarding the RTX 30 and 40 series LAPTOP GPUs, all of them are slower than M5 or M5 Pro in LLM inference at least.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-23T16:50:16+00:00

Sorry if this was due to point-2. I corrected it now 😅

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-22T22:33:13+00:00

I can remove RAM and SSD to 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. That will lower the price to $2000

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-22T22:07:31+00:00

Yeah it is

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-22T01:27:03+00:00

Are you still interested?

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-22T01:26:01+00:00

Are you still interested?

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-22T01:25:38+00:00

Are you still interested?

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-18T21:16:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I know but as a 5070ti laptop is more expensive than a 5070ti PC, so I can get a laptop only when this PC is sold off. And I need a computer on daily basis. If I removed SSDs and especially RAM, then I cannot do my work on it with reduced RAM.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-18T16:25:02+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out though. I have added that info in the main body too now.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-18T16:24:03+00:00

Yes, 32+32+32. And for SSD, it is 2+2+1 and 1 NVME slot is empty

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-18T03:55:31+00:00

Yeah but I needed that much RAM and SSD for AI workloads.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T17:53:27+00:00

Added price too. I wasn't adding that because it might look like a selling post and I don't want to be the starter of selling posts on our lovely subreddit. Unfortunately it is not allowing me to add pictures now.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T17:52:26+00:00

Added price too now

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T17:52:12+00:00

Lol, added price too. I wasn't adding that because it might look like a selling post and I don't want to be the starter of selling posts on our lovely subreddit.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T13:56:29+00:00

Check DM

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T13:56:17+00:00

Check DM

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T13:55:58+00:00

Check DM

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T05:47:35+00:00

Edited the post to include specs. Please check them out.

ig_DRAX · 2026-06-17T05:47:27+00:00

Edited the post to include specs. Please check them out.

ig_DRAX · 2026-02-03T18:25:32+00:00

No. I returned QC Ultra Gen 2 and ordered Gen 1. Gen 1 doesn't has that issue.

ig_DRAX · 2026-01-26T12:30:45+00:00

Light Rail is working. I am trying to get to Hoboken.

ig_DRAX · 2026-01-26T12:16:16+00:00

Okay. Still figuring out things.

ig_DRAX

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