Do I need to upgrade my laptop for MSc Data Science?
Basically Title,
Atm I'm running an M5 Macbook Air with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD(+ a mountain of external hard drives I also own). I also have an Alienware M15 R5 I bought a long time ago that I use primarily for gaming. It has a RTX 3050 Ti and 4GB VRAM.
I'm mostly concerned with courses where I'll have to train my own models locally, if a better computer would speed things up significantly enough to the point it'd save me a lot of stress, or if there are models they expect me to run locally that I can't handle atm.
I guess for anything where I have to train a model with a couple million params, I would have to do it on a cloud computer anyway.
Can anyone who did programming heavy courses in this masters program comment on this? Thanks in advance!