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First review after setting up Local LLM on mac mini

Hey guys, just wanted to share this... Got my new mac mini m5 pro 16 core gpu and 48 gigs of RAM today. And the first thing I did was to install LMstudio bionic and run Qwen 3.8 27B model in it. I'll be honest, totally not impressed by either pp or tps. I think I have to downgrade to a smaller mode…

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  1. 2026-10-06 08:51 · r/LocalLLM
    First review after setting up Local LLM on mac mini

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