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Apple Mac mini (M4) — 24GB / 500GB

A mini pc built on the Apple M4 with about 24GB of memory usable for AI — here’s what it runs and how it fits a private AI Business OS.

Configuration

AI memory
~24GB unified
Usable for models
~16.8GB
System RAM
24GB
Storage
0.5TB
GPUs
1×
Chip
Apple M4

Compatible models

Open models graded for this exact configuration.

  • CodeLlama 13B
    CodeLlama · ~13B · 16K ctx · Llama Community License

    Fits at Q8_0 (~14GB) with ~2.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~14GBRuns well
  • Gemma 3 12B
    Gemma 3 · ~12B · 128K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use

    Fits at Q8_0 (~13GB) with ~3.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~13GBRuns well
  • Mistral Nemo 12B
    Mistral · ~12B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0

    Fits at Q8_0 (~13GB) with ~3.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~13GBRuns well
  • Gemma 2 9B
    Gemma · ~9B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use

    Fits at Q8_0 (~10GB) with ~6.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~10GBRuns well
  • Llama 3.1 8B
    Llama · ~8B · 128K ctx · Llama Community License

    Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~7.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well
  • Qwen3 8B
    Qwen · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0

    Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~7.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well
  • Granite 3 8B
    Granite · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0

    Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~7.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well
  • DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8B
    DeepSeek · ~8B · 128K ctx · MIT

    Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~7.8GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

    Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well

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Offers

  • Demo StoreDemo
    In stock · checked 2026-06-23
    $700Demo only
  • Demo MarketplaceDemo
    In stock · checked 2026-06-23
    $730Demo only

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