if not the cloud because u don't want ongoing payment than remote compute on a desktop with 256 ram&4090 heating the office, an instance like that is a beast for ML compared to these...slim contenders, university professors usually do that, they buy a heavy lifter for a few of them to use freely from their mb airs or thinkpads

laptop is either a macbook or thinkpad for me, i'd buy for portability and use cloud resources/ university servers for actual computation