I would like to start a startup in the data / analytics space. For work laptops in the startup space, do people recommend Macs, PCs with nvidia chips, or simply portability?

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For ease and simplicity, we've gone all in on Apple products. We assign a new Apple product to every new employee. It's just easier to integrate into our existing ecosystem, and it helps with updates and all that.

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Let your initial employees pick. If they don’t have a preference, have a default. Different jobs may want different things. Finance may want a pc whereas engineering or design may want a Mac.

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Lol what 😂😂😂

Mac is my preference, but I recommend running a windows and Linux environment using virtual machines in UTM, sometimes you just need those environments to get something done more easily.

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Most startups run on Macs

mac’s for sure

just rent the GPU usage, so much cheaper than buying $30k worth of GPUs and being sad because they still suck

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