Comment by biztos

If you're running local models, Apple Silicon's shared memory architecture makes them much better at it than other similarly-specced platforms.

If you want your "skills" to include sending iMessage (quite important in the USA), then you need a Mac of some kind.

If you don't care about iMessage and you're just doing API calls for the inference, then it's good old Mass Abundance. Nice excuse to get that cool little Mini you've been wanting.