alt Hacker News> I'd skip M5 and M6 chips for LLM work and wait for a year for M7.
Please say more? Is it because it is a one-time cost, unlike a recurring subscription of Claude/Codex?
> I'd skip M5 and M6 chips for LLM work and wait for a year for M7.
Please say more? Is it because it is a one-time cost, unlike a recurring subscription of Claude/Codex?
If you expect a large leap in performance, buying now means that (a) you will want to buy again in a year but (b) the large leap in performance hurts the resale of what you buy today.
Local models will be that much better in a year, so unless you have to have a top-of-the-line local rig today (the argument goes), stick with Claude for another year.