It’s absolutely worth it, I upgraded from a Core i9 with 12 cores and 32 GB to an M1 Max with 64GB and it was insane, almost 4 times faster, seeing that the new M2 Max beats the M1 Max by more than 20% would motivate me to pay the extra $1,000 bucks. These machines will last a while, my M1 Max is still too much machine more than a year later since I got it, and PyTorch has amazing performance on it.