Need a laptop between Rs55k to 70k after all coupon and bank offer with rtx graphics card…dont want to go above 70k at any cost..
which to go for Intel or ryzen with rtx card ?
laptop purpose - Need for my younger brother(cousin) going to engineering college for studying and also for various AI courses and ML related courses.
expectations - good display, good battery backup if possible, expandable ram and ssd if possible.
I’ll recommend a cheapo general purpose laptop and put the rest of your budget into cloud credits (google colab, Jarvislabs, etc.). You’re not going to be able to run decent ML locally on a laptop, even if you spend twice your budget.
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I did Mt.Tech from tier-1 college. There were AI/ML courses as well. Trust me, if you can get him a mac, please do. He is not going to run models on his laptop, but he is going to code them up on his laptop. If you can, please get him a mac.
Get any macbook air with the notch display. Doesn’t need to be the latest, even older ones are great. Try to get one with 16GB ram. Pro has a better display, better speakers, and has fans for cooling. It’s also heavier. You don’t need the Pro.
As @@m1tr suggested, get a macbook air. You might get one in your budget. Try to optimize for RAM instead of screen size. MBP is great, but might not fit your budget. Macbook Air would do the job.
guys now I am confused as new macbook air was available at Rs 78k after all off and still is i guess.. 16gb 256gb model i suppose… should i inc the budget to 78k and get that?
will it really be better than all these rtx laptops ?
Hey man, there’s been a ton of great info shared in this thread but it can be a bit overwhelming.
Any laptop can run anything. Whether it will run well is a different question. A good laptop will remain an useful tool for years. I can confidently say at around 80K there’s no better all-round laptop than the macbook air. A gaming laptop will be better at gaming and nothing else compared to the macbook air.
For heavy AI workloads like LLMs, even gaming laptops will struggle. VRAM is the bottleneck and nvidia sees no reason to give more VRAM at lower prices because they will cannibalise sales of their high end GPUs. That’s why I recommended cloud credits because they’re pay-as-you-go and it separates your AI requirements from your laptop. You can access your cloud VM from your phone/tablet in a pinch as well.
Make the decision which suits your budget. Macbook air is great at 80K but you can also get a nice Vostro or Thinkpad at 40-50K. Consider your budget as the hard limit and let your buying decision be influenced by that. Good luck!
I would generally recommend a desktop for any kind of ai and ml stuff, since they have more cuda cores, ai tops, and better cooling solutions compared to the laptop mobile gpus.
Btw someone here on TE is selling a 4060 laptop for 70k-
‘for AI and ML’ is not really a lot to go by, it can vary significantly. if hes gonna need larger ram on the GPU anyway most dedicated cards in your price range wont do and he would need to use the cloud anyway. so either save money now and get cheaper but decent device that will last throughout his course. or
A new ARM mac with (16+ GB of ram )would also be great too as its portable , has excellent battery, build and good enough performance to run slight larger models (albeit slower), unless your cousins curriculum involves many windows only applications and tools which should run fine one VMs but is an extra step.
i personally use Macbook pro M3 pro 18gb and have no issues running Power-BI and Excel in VMware. Though at home i remote into my windows desktop instead of running on the VM as powerbi has no native arm version yet, so its slightly smoother on the desktop.
