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MacBook M5max 48 GB RAM needs an agent

I got a new computer, and have tried out a few agents. I must say I'm a bit disappointed. I figured a MacBook M5max 48 GB RAM would be enough to get a reasonable coder LLM going locally. I'm using mlx-lm server with Qwen3.8 27B, in both 8bit and 4bit. Here results: Opencode - mlx-lm server crashes…

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  1. 2026-09-29 02:23 · r/LocalLLM
    MacBook M5max 48 GB RAM needs an agent

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