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What local LLMs are worth running on a Mac Mini M5 Pro 24GB for academic research

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I’m getting a Mac Mini M5 Pro with 24GB unified memory and want to figure out what local models are actually useful on this hardware. Local models won’t be my primary setup. I’ll still use Claude Code, Codex, and APIs like DeepSeek/GLM/Kimi as main. My main use cases are academic/knowledge work: -…

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  1. 2026-09-08 00:00 · r/LocalLLM
    What local LLMs are worth running on a Mac Mini M5 Pro 24GB for academic research

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