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Just bought a Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) for AI development — what’s your setup?

I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Mac mini M5 Pro to work on AI projects! I went with the 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 64GB unified memory and 512GB SSD. I’m planning to use it mainly for AI development, building AI agents, automation workflows, local LLMs (Qwen, etc.) and coding projects. I’m…

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  1. 2026-10-08 13:28 · r/LocalLLM
    Just bought a Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) for AI development — what’s your setup?

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