How-ToDevelopersSeptember 1, 2026

Local LLM setup on M4 Pro Mac mini

A developer details running local LLMs on an M4 Pro Mac mini with 48GB RAM, using Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit and Gemma-4-E4B-it-OptiQ-4bit via oMLX. Setup takes about 30 minutes, motivated by cloud API pricing changes, data privacy, and AI sovereignty.

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