Macbook with Deeplearning

General Discussion
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#1

Hello All, (and thank you for your time )

I bought a Mac book (M1), and plan to learn Tensorflow.

I was told that Macbook is not great for performing a deep learning and I am aware of it.

Thus, I have two options in my mind
#1. Colab,

  • Convenient. It does not require annoying installation process.

#2. Remote Access using SSH

  • Can use Jupyter notebook, which is required tool at my class (I am student, very new in programming)

Some of post I found, recommend using Docker which is container based, and guarantees the same operating environment regardless of OS. (Which I don’t understand as the deeplearning performance relies on GPU spec, so that Macbook would not be ideal hw in this case)

If you have any idea, please give me insights.

#3

If you have any GPU machine, I think option #2 is great enough, and also you can setup your own colab in your GPU machine. (check out this link)

For the docker option, I don’t think that is a good option. Maybe pre-built tensorflow docker image will be crashed in M1 architecture. Check out below link

If you want to accelerate tensorflow using M1 chip, you can check this link (Tensorflow Plugin - Metal - Apple Developer)