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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of reasons besides gaming to have a laptop with a dedicated GPU. There isn’t really many low end professional options, they start over $2k. 3D modelling, video rendering, ML and a bunch of other professional uses are significantly improved with dedicated hardware.

Who knows, maybe she’s running LLaMA on it locally so no one catches her using AI to write her rebuttals.