u/alldatjam

Ordered a m5 pro / upgraded cpu / 64GB ram / 512gb but considering cancelling and jumping up to the m5 max studio / 64GB ram instead.

Use cases will be home server and local AI box, as well as remoting into via my M1 Pro MacBook Pro for LLM work.

I generally prefer the smaller footprint of the Mac mini, and ordered the highest spec to give me the most future proof performance in that footprint.

My issue is that for $600 more I’d get double the memory bandwidth, better cooling (which should protect against throttling), and double the gpu cores. I don’t care about the additional ports besides I have a doc.

Anyone with similar setup that preferred and stuck with the mini? Or anyone that was in this same boat but happy they went to a studio?