# New laptop for Julia

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**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-laptop-for-julia/55687 "2021-02-20T17:02:52Z")\
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My home working setup at the moment is a Dell Latitude, what we call an Engineering model with 32 gigs of RAM. Remember you cant upgrade RAM on most models so go big.  
I have a Dell Thunderbolt dock on the desk, which supplies power and has two monitors connected to it. Mechanical keyboard and mouse. I have a little USB hub on the Thunderbolt dock for easy connection of webcams, headsets etc.

You could consider using GPU instances on a cloud service too

> [@Cloud computing environment that supports Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cloud-computing-environment-that-supports-julia/23749/3):
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> If the problem is worth a few cents to you and you have a credit card i can recommend. [vast.ai](http://vast.ai) They are an PC with GPU peer-lending platform which has lower rates than other cloud services since they offer consumer GPUs. To run julia on them select the image [nvidia/cuda:9.0-cudnn7-devel-ubuntu16.04](https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda/) And download the Julia binaries for Linux. I’ve had some JuliaGPU tests running there and they worked fine. You then have to install all the packages. I…

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