Can an M5 MacBook Pro with 24GB or 32GB RAM run Qwen 3.6 27B locally?
Adventurous-Gold6413 · reddit · 2026-07-23
The post asks whether an M5 MacBook Pro with 24GB or 32GB RAM is enough for on-device AI workloads such as Qwen 3.6 27B or Gemma 4 31B, and whether there are better portable options.
It is essentially a hardware-selection question for local inference on a laptop, focused on memory capacity and practical model support.
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