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by sunpazed 306 days ago
Don’t have enough ram for this model, however the smaller 20B model runs nice and fast on my MacBook and is reasonably good for my use-cases. Pity that function calling is still broken with llama.cpp
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I'm glad to see this was a bug of some sort and (hopefully) not a full RAM limitation. I've used quite a few of these models on my MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. I also have a plan to build an AI chat bot and host it from my bedroom on a $149 mini-pc. I'll probably go much smaller than the 20B models for that. The Qwen3 4B model looks quite good.

https://joeldare.com/my_plan_to_build_an_ai_chat_bot_in_my_b...

what are your use cases? wondering if it's good enough for coding / agentic stuff