Setting up Apple’s M1 MacBooks for Machine Learning

Works for the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and the normal M1 chips

Pascal Janetzky
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 21, 2021

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With the newest iteration of its custom M1 chip, the M1 Pro and M1 Max versions, Apple has given the Machine Learning community a powerful tool. To some extent, however, this power can only be unleashed if the system is set up correctly — despite Apple’s normal user-friendliness, this is not a straightforward task.

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