I haven't tried doing that but if it's a similar resource requirement to prototyping (like if you'll be working with a pretrained model, not training one) then it should be fine. Again though, the biggest factor is whether you like it and if it works for you - since you bought a laptop instead of a workstation, you must have had a very good reason for needing one and none of us can answer that question for you. If you're not training, as long as your stuff fits in memory the specs don't matter that much.