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MacBook Air m5 32gb useful for some LLM work?

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Which models, and do you recommend or no? Is Gemma 31b qat / qwen3.8 27b fast or decent speed on it? (I don’t have this MacBook yet but I plan on getting it because I don’t have a proper workable laptop I can carry around.) Question what do other MacBook Air 24gb/ 32gb say?

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  1. 2026-09-08 05:56 · r/LocalLLM
    MacBook Air m5 32gb useful for some LLM work?

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