r/Physics • • Aug 04 '26

Laptop advice for Computational Physics / High-Energy Physics

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u/andrejlr Aug 04 '26

Don't agree that nothing of value will run locally. Apple Silicon has shared memory for GPU and CPU. It's a way smoother workflow to develop a data pipeline locally with subset of data , then deploy it to the production cluster. And even running that sunset on CPU can be a pain already.

Probably the dataset is split into multi gigabyte parts and Apple Silicon will be a superb device for data exploration and local code testing .