AINewsnow

Mac Mini M5 Pro 64GB - CPU/GPU Upgrades? SSD?

This story is from 2026-09-15. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

Hi, I want to buy the M5 Pro Mac Mini with 64 GB for development, local LLMs - should I pay +220€ for getting a few more cores? Would you pay +330€ for the 1TB ssd upgrade? It seems that more cores don't translate to faster token generation, right? The storage, for 330€ I can get external ssd's? Th…

Read the full story at r/LocalLLM ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-09-15 11:37 · r/LocalLLM
    Mac Mini M5 Pro 64GB - CPU/GPU Upgrades? SSD?

More stories

  1. Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  2. Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  3. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
  4. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
  5. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools — r/LocalLLM
  6. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejects ‘AI will end the world’ claim, yet cautions ‘we should go as fast as we can but...’ — Mint AI
  7. Meet the Data Agent in ChatGPT Work — OpenAI YouTube
  8. AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack — Ars Technica AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →