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Why should anyone buy a laptop for 5k, with a 600 dollar GPU in it? With that money you could buy a normal laptop, and rent the GPU or even buy the GPU and place it in a server.

Also the 500 dollar charge for Windows 10 and pre-installed CUDA, cuDNN, and Tensorflow is straight up scamming people.

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Its pretty ironic considering this company also sells cloud GPUs (usually much cheaper than AWS) and preconfigured GPU racks, so they clearly know how the market works in this space. I really wish to have been a fly on the wall when they decided to add this to their product roster.

Because:

> performance up to 4x faster than Apple’s M1 Max

> up to 4x

Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.

That's just speculation. And even if it's 2x, it's still a very welcome improvement.

Certainly, but without knowing the workload that was used for the benchmark it’s a meaningless marketing number.

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