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What small LLMs are you running locally?

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I usually run Qwen3.8-27B Q5 on my desktop PC, and I’m pretty happy with it. However, I’d also like to keep a few smaller, more specialized models on my laptop, which has 4 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM. What small LLMs would you recommend for that kind of hardware? I’m especially interested in model…

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