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High performance PC/laptop for development. A Jetson board is a deployed solution but I wouldn't dare do my day to day development on one, limited RAM and weak CPU cores to be compiling code and running physics simulators.

Your laptop though you could definitely run ROS on, many people run ROS on their macs. I don't personally have experience to tell you how much effort is involved with that, but there's some documentation around about it. If you're wanting to have an easy experience, getting a ubuntu machine would be good - though you could also just dual boot your Mac.

My recommendation for everyone is the Lenovo Thinkpads. They have some of the best linux support of any vendor and great developer machines.

High performance PC/laptop for development. A Jetson board is a deployed solution but I wouldn't dare do my day to day development on one, limited RAM and weak CPU cores to be compiling code and running physics simulators.

Your laptop though you could definitely run ROS on, many people run ROS on their macs. I don't personally have experience to tell you how much effort is involved with that, but there's some documentation around about it. If you're wanting to have an easy experience, getting a ubuntu machine would be good - though you could also just dual boot your Mac.

My recommendation for everyone is the Lenovo Thinkpads. They have some of the best linux support of any vendor and great developer machines. That would be my recommendation if none of the other alternatives above interest you.