Recommend Notebook for Poly

[yanfxl]

My kid will be studying Applied AI in Poly and needs to buy a notebook.

Will a Ryzen 7 with Nvidia MX450 type GPU be sufficient or must get those with 3050 type? According to the listed requirements on the Poly's website MX450 type is recommended.

Cost is an important consideration.

Thank you.

 

[Ye_Rongtian]

3050 graphic is for playing games. Does Applied AI need to play games? MX450 is no difference from built in onboard graphic. For sch usage I recommend getting business level laptop with next business day onsite service warranty.

 

[flowerpalms]

My kid will be studying Applied AI in Poly and needs to buy a notebook.

Will a Ryzen 7 with Nvidia MX450 type GPU be sufficient or must get those with 3050 type? According to the listed requirements on the Poly's website MX450 type is recommended.

Cost is an important consideration.

Thank you.

just follow what the school recommend

 

[SpecialKeyboardService]

just follow what the school recommend

Which is gonna chop him carrot?

 

[iszit]

My kid will be studying Applied AI in Poly and needs to buy a notebook.

Will a Ryzen 7 with Nvidia MX450 type GPU be sufficient or must get those with 3050 type? According to the listed requirements on the Poly's website MX450 type is recommended.

Cost is an important consideration.

Thank you.

If you have a reasonably usable laptop (intel 6th gen and above) at the moment perhaps let your kid use that first until your kid understand what kind of hardware is required for the course. For AI models, the faster the GPU, the more efficient your model.

Based on SP applied AI and analytics course outline, there is no AI models till 2nd year, so if you can put off the purchase, it should be OK.

If you need to buy, I will feel that the GTX1650 budget models should be the ones to consider.
About $1200 is quite good bang for the buck. The GTX1650 models comes with 4GB vs 2GB of graphics memory on the MX450.

I am in the same shoes as you except my kid is going to media arts, so I have been scrutinizing the offerings.

 

[Konnichiwa]

ThinkPad T480 is sufficient. I bought it from Carousell refurbished for $750.

 

[keenklee]

My kid will be studying Applied AI in Poly and needs to buy a notebook.

Will a Ryzen 7 with Nvidia MX450 type GPU be sufficient or must get those with 3050 type? According to the listed requirements on the Poly's website MX450 type is recommended.

Cost is an important consideration.

Thank you.

IMHO.AFAIK.
The Polytechnics have vendors offer suitable selected configuration notebooks usually have 3 years on-site warranty. The warranty is important as it is for the duration of the course. Check to see which model is recommended by the course.

The student will carry the notebook so weight is important.
Besides the weight of the notebook, also look at the size and weight of the AC Adaptor.
It is good to have 16GB RAM as the notebook will definitely be used for other purposes.

Also take a look as some vendors may offer extended warranty ( 3 + 2 ) or warranty covering device damage or water spillage.

P.S. Light weight notebook usually is not powerful or long lasting. Powerful notebook usually is not light weight.

 

[natas]

P.S. Light weight notebook usually is not powerful or long lasting. Powerful notebook usually is not light weight.

Your logic a bit out.

I am current using my Envy i7-6500. Not powerful to play graphic intensive game but powerful enough for youtube, excel, words, etc. Long enough to last 6 yrs n still going.

 

[keenklee]

Your logic a bit out.

I am current using my Envy i7-6500. Not powerful to play graphic intensive game but powerful enough for youtube, excel, words, etc. Long enough to last 6 yrs n still going.

IMHO.
My apologies, my long lasting refer to battery life on usage.
I supposed to type

Lighty weight notebook usually is not powerful but long lasting ( battery life ).

 

[dappermen]

in my impression alot of tertiary schools are using mcbook!

even way in 2015, what era are we in now?

Flowerpalm gave gd suggestion too!




it cant be that your kid's poly (somemore it is on AI!) is diff from his:

Star Awards 2022: Dennis Chew is going back to school, worries about using a MacBook​

yes all homewk by Mcbook (this is not a secret for very long)
https://www.asiaone.com/entertainme...going-back-school-worries-about-using-macbook
all my youngster frens use only mcbook , and sing rave for mc too!

 

[aCuria]

I work with AI on a professional basis

For training nobody i know trains serious AI models on a laptop... on the low end you will SSH to a workstation with several GPUs and on the high end you will use a Nvidia DGX or supercomputer cluster. When doing training the machine has to be left on for days to weeks at a time, you wont be able to use it to do normal work. If you try to do other stuff and something hangs you just wasted allot of time

For inference its more reasonable to use a laptop, the main thing to consider is that the GPU vram MUST be large enough to fit the model you trained. To play safe in professional situation the laptops with high vram today are the ones with 16gb 3080 gpus... which are not cheap

However it is more likely the school will be playing with toy models you can train on a toaster =/ some 3000 series nvidia gpu is probably sufficient, get the best one in budget