I co-founded Sonalytic and served as CTO until we got acquired. We developed AI for music information retrieval. Clearly an area where every developer needs the newest hardware. Or do they?
The entire time I worked from a 2010 Macbook Pro. For really resource hungry stuff, we had a few dedicated servers with 64 cores, 512Gb of RAM and Nvidia GPUs. I.e., nothing you’d ever get in a laptop.
Because my Macbook wasn’t particularly fast, we ended up avoiding all kinds of bloat. We kept things simple, which actually helped us move really fast, and used the resources on the big machines for scientific computing.
The entire time I worked from a 2010 Macbook Pro. For really resource hungry stuff, we had a few dedicated servers with 64 cores, 512Gb of RAM and Nvidia GPUs. I.e., nothing you’d ever get in a laptop.
Because my Macbook wasn’t particularly fast, we ended up avoiding all kinds of bloat. We kept things simple, which actually helped us move really fast, and used the resources on the big machines for scientific computing.
Worked out well for us :-).