I have 2 laptops, one an M1 Max base model, the other a windows gaming laptop (2023 Asus m16 with 64gb ram, 4070, and 4tb storage); I’m trying to decide on an upgrade path.
I have 2 possible paths, MacBook Pro m5 max 128gb or get an egpu for the windows laptop and instead of spending 6k on the max just go for an rtx5000 72gb (which would cost about the same as the Mac).
I sense that I’m missing something, but I’m not sure what. I spend all my time at a desk and don’t travel with either laptop. I’m equally comfortable in Unix or windows. I’m developing desktop software. I do want to run my LLM’s locally given that I’m writing shaders for my application and using a service makes it not possible to do that (I think).
So, what else’s do I need to think about.
Edit: Running the llm locally is important to me.
2nd Edit: The egpu path affords me a path to Linux which would be a good thing I think.