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I was just given the opportunity to get an M4 Max macbook from work for personal use. Debating whether to use it as personal computer or turn into a local LLM. How smart / quick a model can I run? Any suggestions?

It's a super lucky situation. Here's the stats: My current personal computer: 2021 Macbook Pro M1 Pro 32 GB RAM 2 TB SSD It's fine, getting a little old, the battery runs down a little fast, but I don't need an upgrade currently. The new computer: 2024 Macbook Pro M4 Max 128 GB RAM 1 TB SSD So I'm…

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  1. 2026-10-12 14:23 · r/LocalLLM
    I was just given the opportunity to get an M4 Max macbook from work for personal use. Debating whether to use it as personal computer or turn into a local LLM. How smart / quick a model can I run? Any suggestions?

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