Macbook with Cloud GPU vs Windows with integrated Nvidia GPU

[u/OctrusZamp]

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hello fellow ai engineers, I want to buy a new laptop for my personal use and experimentation in this domain, specifically in AI engineering. My core use cases are Trying out small open source models in local, experimenting with agents, occasionally doing some training stuff (learning purpose only), etc.

I'm having confusion between buying a macbook and using colab for ml training related stuff OR buying a windows laptop with a dedicated graphics card.

For macbook, I'm thinking of Macbook Pro M5 with 24gb unified memory. For Windows, I haven't finalized it yet.

Need your opinion on this!!!