Need some help here!!
I'm learning machine learning, so planning to buy Asus R510JX-DM230T. Are the below specs enough to practice TensorFlow ?? Specs : 2.6GHz Core i7 4720HQ processor

8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive

15.6-inch FHD Anti-Glare Display, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M Graphics

You might notice a lack of SSD if you've had one before
The processor is 4th gen, 7th is currently out. That isn't necessarily a bad thing though...

Idk, or maybe a cloud solution? From Microsoft or Google

@TheGeekyGuy parts are quite expensive here :(

@itsdaniel0 currently, only this laptop comes under my budget 😅

@Arjun If pricing is a heavy influencer, then it's a good spec for a reasonable price
Ensure it has upgradeable RAM though. That's usually a bottleneck

@itsdaniel0 This guy's right. Neural networks eat RAM for breakfast. 8gb may not be enough for the more fun things.

@Arjun go for cloud. As your data increases you RAM consumption will go off the roof. I am here using a server machine with 32 gigs of RAM and even that sometimes falls short on it.

@Siddharthkr93 You'd need a good Internet connection for a cloud machine though, otherwise the response times would be laggy :(

Doing any kind of serious NN work on a laptop is a fool's errand. You HAVE to use a cloud service for that if you don't work for a large firm. You also won't want to leave your laptop running at fullblast in your room for days. All you'll do on the laptop will be practice runs on tiny data to see if your code actually works, which doesn't require anything above 16gig ram and 2ish Ghz. quad core.

Also, ML ain't only NNs, there are more to it than that.

Source: Am ML Msc. student, 2nd year.

@itsdaniel0 response times become a non-issue when the model takes 4 days to train :)

Yaa, I guess I should get a better internet connection then , rather than a laptop.

@kkalem Which cloud solution do you prefer?

@Arjun Ive been using AWS, they got all the stuff I needed, plus my school provides credits there.