Tooling
Running Local LLMs on 24GB M4 Macs With System Overhead
M4 Mac users with 24GB unified memory face real constraints when running local models alongside Firefox and system processes. We analyzed what actually fits.
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A developer working on an M4 Mac with 24GB of unified memory recently asked a practical question: what local language models can run with a 64K context window while keeping Firefox open and accounting for macOS system overhead? The question exposes a genuine gap in how AI practitioners think about o...
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Method & sources
- Source type
- Primary publication (lab/vendor blog) — our analysis + implication
- Source link
- r/localllama
- Published
- UTC
- Byline
- By the gotcontext.ai team (editorial standards)
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- corrections@gotcontext.ai