What laptop to buy for machine learning?

Question

laptops

I'm just going to study, I don't understand yet what I need . I have
an old budget laptop on hand now (i5-3230M and geforce 710M). Technical condition OK, but falling apart physically. So you still have to buy something instead of even for the first time
. The budget is 25,000-35,000, so I’m only considering it.
Should I buy business laptops like thinkpad X260/T460, dell E7270 etc.? ? Or do you need a video card?
I also guess as a variant of the Lenovo Legion Y520

Answer 1

machine learning
in order to learn, logically, special capacities are not required, but there is a nuance.
90% of the work is working with data, the rest is choosing a toolchain and setting up the environment... When you are solving real problems, the actual creation of AI is a matter of research and fighting a toad (the one that does not allow you to waste money), since real tasks for some reason they don't want to solve it using a 'single-layer perceptron of 10 neurons', for some reason they want multi-megabyte networks and gigabytes of training data.
And here it comes up that it’s difficult to find an answer on the processor (read impossible), and working with video cards has a lot of nuances and a limited choice of frameworks (for example, nvidia hardware is more often supported).
If you can manage with a small amount of data with any tool, no matter how inefficient it is, even if you pick something in Excel, then you have to rack your brains with big data and look for ways to optimize data storage and processing.
Those. knowledge in machine learning is this struggle, and not the ability to use the framework and upload pictures there.
ps Choose a laptop not for its performance, but for ease of use. For example, if you often need to carry it with you in your backpack, take it as light as possible, even if it is an overgrown tablet (I had a digma cite e200 model with 4GB of ram, a terribly convenient thing, albeit a weak one, I bought it for 14t.r. sorry now they don’t), run heavy tasks on a server, over a network, rented or standing in your home.
If you need a laptop to stand on the table and not move, then don’t buy it, it’s better to take a stationary

Answer 2

The Lenovo Legion Y520 c 1050 looks clearly better than the thinkpad X260 with integrated graphics, don't be fooled by names like 'business books' and so on, you should get a laptop with better specs.
A video card of the level you are considering will come in handy for very simple models.
Here is an article if you more or less seriously want to train your models (on your own hardware, so you can look for training services like google collaborate) https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-d...