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I got tired of Apple's configurator, so I built one for local AI

I was buying a Mac mini and kept going back and forth between configs, trying to guess which one would actually run the models I want. So I built a configurator for people buying a Mac to run local LLMs: https://modelfit.io/ You can clearly see all the best llms it can read and at what efficiency a…

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  1. 2026-10-20 02:42 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I got tired of Apple's configurator, so I built one for local AI

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