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Local model for Hermes on a 48GB M5 Pro Mac mini that’s also my daily dev machine?

Before I get blasted, yes I have done research and everything keeps coming back to Qwen 3.5 at like 9B or good 'ole 3.8 27B. I am not opposed to those but I am new to the Mac LLM space and I wanted to get real user experiences. I’m new to running LLMs on Macs and mostly used to Windows/NVIDIA setup…

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  1. 2026-10-03 00:10 · r/LocalLLM
    Local model for Hermes on a 48GB M5 Pro Mac mini that’s also my daily dev machine?

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