[CoolGuySteve]

Are the embedded NVidia chips really that great for DL? I have a GeForce 150 in my laptop that I keep permanently disabled in Linux to save a couple watts of power. Aside from the GPU generally being weak, my battery would only last for a couple hours if I cranked my CPU/GPU near 100% usage vs 10 hours just editing files via wifi.

Almost all my work requiring a GPU is done by either ssh'ing into my desktop with a GTX 1080 or on AWS. And in that scenario, Linux has less friction (I can migrate setups between home and AWS) and is significantly cheaper than a MacPro.

[mark_l_watson]

I have a System76 Linux laptop with a 1070 and it works fine for deep learning. I used to SSH into cloud services but decided having a GPU always available locally was worth a little money.