Ask HN: What is the best local model that runs on your Mac at decent speed?

By carloslfu · 2026-09-16 · 1 points · 0 comments

What are your own experiences on this? What mac/specs do you have? what is your preferred AI to run on it? at how many tok/s does it run and how much memory does it take? I'll start: I have a MacBookP M5 Pro with 48GB, my favorite model is Qwen 3.8 Flash running at 14-…

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