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pjmlpyesterday at 7:26 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, if they happen to run tooling like Excel, PowerBI, Tableau,....

Also Linux support for CUDA on laptops, especially with dual GPU setup isn't particularly great.

Most workstation class laptops are Windows based.


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vlovich123today at 5:23 AM

AFAIK neither excel nor Tableau has any CUDA functionality to begin with so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. No one is doing CUDA number crunching on local laptops - either the problem is big enough to warrant a proper data center or it’s small enough that a local CPU is fine. Local CUDA is a weird middle ground that requires a lot of complexity for marginal compute capability.

Linux support for CUDA in such an environment is irrelevant.

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