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Mac mini M6 16GB

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All memory figures are estimates: measured quantized file size + computed context memory + runtime overhead, with a 12% safety margin on your hardware. Real usage varies with runtime version and settings.

GGUF is the quantized single-file format local runtimes load (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp); our memory figures are measured from the linked GGUF file. The original repo holds full-precision safetensors — a much larger download meant for GPUs with far more memory.