I've installed machine learning environments on numerous Linux machines, it's never been too difficult. If you can't figure out how to do that, then you really shouldn't be in this field.

Here's a guide, https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-nvidia-rapids

Even if you get something that's pre configured eventually you're going to have to update stuff.

This feels targeted at people who can expensive it to a company account and not worry about the price. Their's no logical reason to buy this over the much cheaper, yet equally speced laptop I posted above. Both are made by Razer, they probably have the same exact warranty if things go wrong.

I'm as close to a True Believer for this product as you'll find. I'm typing this from a Blade 15 in Ubuntu I bought 2 weeks ago for deep learning (not knowing about the Lambda collaboration!)

I've been using Razer laptops for years and use Lambda boxes at work. All great computers. As you can imagine, running Linux on these is a chore (my current adventure [1]) so I'm very excited to see some official support.

I have many questions, but the first is something that seems so obvious from the outside: Razer clearly has a battery-failure problem. From my perspective this is because these laptops are plugged in most of the time and have no control to avoid changing to 100% and holding the battery there. Over the lifetime, that's terrible for the battery and most vendors do something about it. Apple will not always charge to 100% via some mysterious schedule, an older Dell Latitude I had used a setting in the BIOS to charge to 90% when plugged in for a long time.

Why doesn't Razer get their BIOS vendor to do this? At this point it feels like a reputational problem, and one that is well deserved. I've bought 4 Razer batteries on eBay for 3 different laptops and expect to buy a fifth for this machine in a few years.

Regardless, thanks for making the first laptop I've ever seen that feels like it was made for me. Can't wait to try one out.

[1] https://abarry.org/ubuntu-on-razer-blade-15-2022-advanced/

I am sure it was a ton of work to get this done, and congrats on that. I'm curious as to why you chose Razer as a partner in this (though I don't know who else I would recommend), and why a laptop?

My experience.

In my last start-up we bought 4 Razer Blades, well, we actually bought two, but ended up going through 4 machines before we got two working ones! And when I say "two working ones", one of those has a faulty camera, so only 1 actually fully working machines of 4. So, you can understand my feelings when I say "never again will I buy any Razer product".

But our current consideration, as we're looking at buying a few more machines is, do we really need laptops as our core development device? We're looking at getting desktops, and cheaper laptops for if we want to do some coding while we're on the train, or travelling or whatever. We find we are rarely doing heavy lifting work when we're not at the office.

For what I assume is similar cost, we can get a nice small underpowered for our needs laptop, and a suitable desktop. Does anybody else see the market going in this direction?