My $600 Mac Mini Runs a 35B AI Model

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	My $600 Mac Mini Runs a 35B AI Model (thoughts.jock.pl)
	4 points by danebalia 60 days ago

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> The 35B Trick (Your SSD Is the New GPU Memory)

Wave "bye bye" to your write cycles.

why? it's mostly reads. the weights are static.

llama-cpp's process is, but macOS itself will swap hard when 10-14gb of memory is paged for LLM inference. Dense models especially would thrash zram.