I have a Mac Studio with the M1 max and it is like a 2x boost over my Intel i5 MBP on CPU. Couldn't get metal to work with TF, think it's half precision only and I didn't want to convert my model.
I think getting a M1 laptop and using Colab is probably a good choice. I could justify the paid subscription version if I needed the GPU compute.
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I have a Mac Studio with the M1 max and it is like a 2x boost over my Intel i5 MBP on CPU. Couldn't get metal to work with TF, think it's half precision only and I didn't want to convert my model.
I think getting a M1 laptop and using Colab is probably a good choice. I could justify the paid subscription version if I needed the GPU compute.