My very minimalist desk setup. The Speaker edifer mp230 hides behind the laptop.i dont need a keyboard and mouse because i travel a lot , got the habit of trackpad and laptop Keyboard, anyways what do you all think any suggestions
So last night, when I saw the news that the price had risen for all Mac products, the laptop which I was planning to buy was showing as 2.5lakhs !!!! (that's an M5 MacBook Air 24 GB). I rushed this morning to my nearest Apple Store. Luckily, I got the same MacBook still at the old price, as it was printed on the box. I got a good deal and paid 1.8 for that. Also bought an Edifier speaker and got two hours of Apple support for 13,000. Good deal. Pictures attached.
So last night, when I saw the news that the price had risen for all Mac products, the laptop which I was planning to buy was showing as 2.5lakhs, thats 80k price hike. (that's an M5 MacBook Air 24 GB). I rushed this morning to my nearest Apple Store. Luckily, I got the same MacBook still at the old price, as it was printed on the box. I got a good deal and paid 1.8 for that. Also bought an Edifier speaker and got two hours of Apple support for 13,000. Good deal. Pictures attached.
Well I actually wanted to buy a MacBook Pro at a budget of 2.1 lakh but that is now selling at some 2.7 or 2.8. I don't even care so that's not happening.
I basically do AI and coding and all. I don't play anymore at 40 years old. I thinking a proper good-looking sleek gaming laptop, because I need to carry it a lot, would be my best bet. I will get a good GPU too.
Primary criteria would be:
\- it should be a thin build of metal, basically like a MacBook, portable basically
\- since I'm buying a gaming laptop I would also like to game maybe GTA 6
Budget would be around two
So what would be your suggestion?
Suggest me a MacBook or any other laptop under two lakhs
Suggest me a MacBook with 24 GB of RAM
Which MacBook can I buy with a minimum of 24 GB of RAM? I'm looking at the M5 Air 15-inch with 24 GB of RAM. Also there is an M5 MacBook Pro with not the pro chip but 24 GB of RAM. ;
My work generally deals with small LLM models, building an inference agentic solution with small LLM models like 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion maximum. Sometimes I even use the Gemma 270 million model for small tasks of inferencing and coding with Docker containers, mostly one Docker container at a time. And also most of the deployments would be done to either:
the authentication would be carried out by managed identity or key vault
the database, the storage, everything would be in Azure or AWS or GCP
This is like the skeleton architecture as all of them would be in the cloud;
I would love to hear your opinion. What do you suggest would be good for me? If anyone can tell me what all are available in the market, I can buy it from the Apple store but they don't give any discounts. If I want to customize it, let's say with 32 GB, they take around four to six weeks to deliver, which is not an option.
I have a maximum budget of 2 lakhs. I can push towards 2.1 but that's it.
Suggest me a MacBook with 24 GB of RAM
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Which MacBook can I buy with a minimum of 24 GB of RAM? I'm looking at the M5 Air 15-inch with 24 GB of RAM. Also there is an M5 MacBook Pro with not the pro chip but 24 GB of RAM.
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My work generally deals with small LLM models, building an inference agentic solution with small LLM models like 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion maximum. Sometimes I even use the Gemma 270 million model for small tasks of inferencing and coding with Docker containers, mostly one Docker container at a time. And also most of the deployments would be done to either:
- the authentication would be carried out by managed identity or key vault
- the database, the storage, everything would be in Azure or AWS
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This is like the skeleton architecture as all of them would be in the cloud.
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I would love to hear your opinion. What do you suggest would be good for me? If anyone can tell me what all are available in the market, I can buy it from the Apple store but they don't give any discounts. If I want to customize it, let's say with 32 GB, they take around four to six weeks to deliver, which is not an option.
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I have a maximum budget of 2 lakhs. I can push towards 2.1 but that's it.