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I see often MBP with 48-64gb and 1TB under than 3500 CHF. Including the M4 (thx to black Friday week).

Meanwhile 4090 are close to 2000CHF.

I have no doubt where the actual value is.

A 3090 often goes for $800-900 on the used market in the US. Two of these would be $1800, and you get a much more versatile machine. However, the downside is also obvious, since your two 3090s can draw up to 800 W, and there's no chance you can carry it around with you. Overall, it's not that obvious where the actual value is, as it depends a lot on what you want to use it for.

What do you mean by "versatile"? I enjoy using my macbook for literally everything I do. And it can run 70b llama with ease. Seems extremely versatile, since I will have macbook anyway.

What would I do with giant tower chugging microwave worth of energy? I would better just do AWS for training. That is way more price efficient.

Also much more price efficient to buy a 3090 gaming laptop. It can do everything a Macbook can, but better, and at a third of the cost. You don’t need to put all of the money you save by buying non-Apple products into GPUs, after all.

Alright but being Swiss you can probably afford to buy both and still have most of your monthly pay left over lmao.

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