I've been waiting long to move from intel to apple silicon:
I skipped m2 because it was not a substantial improvement over m1
m3: Similar price to m3 pro with 16gb ram
m3 pro: no significant improvement over m2
m3 max: only chip with substantial improvement over m2 max
I need more ram for local LLM inference and maybe ios, vision os development but spending $800 for upgrading from 64 -> 128gb
but I can get 96gb upgrade for the base m3 max which just cost $100 more from the 64gb version but that sacrifices CPU, GPU cores
![1699170652763.png 1699170652763.png](https://forums.macrumors.com/data/attachments/1261/1261813-f3fc7c4268c6f67a9ae807fee507fae3.jpg)
I skipped m2 because it was not a substantial improvement over m1
m3: Similar price to m3 pro with 16gb ram
m3 pro: no significant improvement over m2
m3 max: only chip with substantial improvement over m2 max
I need more ram for local LLM inference and maybe ios, vision os development but spending $800 for upgrading from 64 -> 128gb
![1699170618541.png 1699170618541.png](https://forums.macrumors.com/data/attachments/1261/1261812-334aca0dec63e2c5660f961a4440e045.jpg)
but I can get 96gb upgrade for the base m3 max which just cost $100 more from the 64gb version but that sacrifices CPU, GPU cores
![1699170652763.png 1699170652763.png](https://forums.macrumors.com/data/attachments/1261/1261813-f3fc7c4268c6f67a9ae807fee507fae3.jpg)