I thought about it for a moment, but the real reason I got the new M5 Pro with 64GB is to be able to run several large projects concurrently in Docker envs.

I didn't go for a Max chip because I value the better battery life on the Pro more than I value the additional GPU cores.

Personally, I think until the LLMs start to plateau, it will always be more valuable to run a frontier LLM vs just a very capable local LLM. I have no idea when that will happen, so I simply decided to not overbuy the hardware now.