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MacBook M1 Pro vs. Google Colab for Data Science – Should You Buy the Latest from Apple?

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$2499 laptop (M1 Pro) vs. entirely free Google Colab for data science and machine learning? Which is better for TensorFlow? That’s what we try to answer today.
ARTICLE:
Install TensorFlow on Apple M1: https://betterdatascience.com/install-tensorflow-2-7-on-macbook-pro-m1-pro/
Setup Cats vs. Dogs dataset: https://betterdatascience.com/top-3-prerequisites-for-deep-learning-projects/

00:00 Introduction
01:04 Hardware differences
02:24 TensorFlow benchmark setup
03:28 TensorFlow benchmark results
05:19 Outro

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