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Hi everyone, I’m starting university soon and plan to work in the field of AI/ML for medicine.

From what I have read online .etc... CUDA is a major requirement especially if your getting into research and everything.(please correct me if am wrong here)

Main question: Is not having a NVIDIA gpu and support for CUDA a deal-breaker for AI/ML in medicine research?

Should I prioritize getting a laptop with an NVIDIA GPU for that reason - or -

Should i buy smth else and pray that my future uni(s) will have a reliable and accessible HPC/computer lab.

I would prefer working locally due to sensitive nature of clinical data , and moreover cloud hasn’t been great for handling image datasets in my experience.

Additional Laptop constraints:

14" (needs to be portable)
Long-term use (~8–10 years, so no OLED)
Some gaming + ML workloads so a good GPU

Right now, my only viable option here is the ASUS TUF A14 (With the 8060S and a 2.5k IPS).

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