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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
240 points secure | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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__mharrison__ ◴[31 Oct 25 18:46 UTC] No.45775330[source]▶
Incredible hardware. Love that I can also run local llms on mine. https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/4526
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ericmcer ◴[31 Oct 25 19:33 UTC] No.45775821[source]▶
Can't you run small LLMs on like... a Macbook air M1? Some models are under 1B weights, they will be almost useless but I imagine you could run them on anything from the last 10 years.

But yeah if you wanna run 600B+ weights models your gonna need an insane setup to run it locally.

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1. jen729w ◴[31 Oct 25 23:24 UTC] No.45777812[source]▶
They "run" in the most technical sense, yes. But they're unusably slow.