How I turned my older laptop into a Machine Learning Superstar with an eGPU
The surprisingly simple journey of transforming an Ultrabook for a fraction the cost of a new PC
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7 min readApr 13, 2020
A couple of years ago in early 2016, part of the way through my undergraduate at Georgia Institute of Technology, I was trying to get my computer science degree with a 5-year-old laptop with a failing hard drive. I needed to upgrade. The new Intel Skylake processors and the Dell XPS 15 9550 blew me away with how form-fitting and powerful an…