Guides
Step-by-step guides for running local AI on Apple Silicon Macs: Ollama, LM Studio, Whisper, Mac mini M4 setups, private workflows, APIs and realistic memory recommendations.
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macOS 27 Golden Gate compatibility: Does it run on your Mac? Intel support ends
macOS 27 Golden Gate drops every Intel Mac. The full compatible-Mac list, what M1 and M2 owners keep, and the M3 plus 12GB Siri AI limit.
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Moondream2 on Mac: 1.7 GB Vision Without the Cloud
Run Moondream2 locally on Apple Silicon: Ollama setup, Python API, memory guidance, privacy and the limits of this compact vision model.
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Gemma 3 on Mac: Variants, Vision and Memory Limits
Gemma 3 on Apple Silicon: which Ollama variants support text and images, what package size fits, and why 128K context is not a RAM promise.
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Gemma 4 on Mac: Variants, Modalities and Memory Planning
Gemma 4 on Apple Silicon: compare E2B, E4B, 12B, 26B A4B and 31B by package size, modality and unified memory.
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Qwen3.6 on Mac: 27B, 35B-A3B, Vision and Ollama
Run Qwen3.6 locally on Apple Silicon: 27B vs 35B-A3B, Ollama and MLX tags, vision, benchmarks and realistic RAM limits.
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Ollama on Mac mini M4: local AI setup, memory limits and the cloud trap
Set up Ollama on Mac mini M4: model choices for 16–64 GB unified memory, local API, Open WebUI, context length, cloud models and privacy.