MacBook Air M5 vs Gigabyte Aero X16 (RTX 5060) — for AI/ML work, want local training too (budget ~$1300)
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Doing AI/ML work and want a laptop that handles it well — including some local training/fine-tuning, not just cloud. Budget is around $1,300. MacBook Air 13”, M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD — $1,299 Great battery/portability, Unix-based, but no CUDA/discrete GPU. Local ML relies on MLX/PyTorch-MPS. 16GB s…
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MacBook Air M5 vs Gigabyte Aero X16 (RTX 5060) — for AI/ML work, want local training too (budget ~$1300)