alt Hacker NewsI suspect with those specs, you're not in the game right now for reliably using local models for code generation. The easiest way in is a MacBook with at least 32GB of RAM. This should be able to run a 4bit quantization of qwen 3.6 using the MLX format really well.
Now that I’m dipping more into this space, am gonna see what I can upgrade with the motherboard I have, but RAM pricing as it is, I’ll need to be smart about when I upgrade.
I very much appreciate the frank response, as it makes me feel less defeated at knowing my understanding of how it should work is not the full issue, hahaha