Advice on hardware : laptop or desktop

Hi ! I'm given the opportunity to choose a work computer for my PhD. The first part of my thesis will include the training and testing of deep learning networks on large stacks of images (15 to 20 channels), which can be quite long. I have to choose between laptops and desktop computers, and I'm not sure what to do. One the one hand I'd like it to be powerful enough for my application, on the other it would be …

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