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You can run Deepseek 4 flash on a 128gb Mac, comfortably with lots of cache and context on a 256gb one.

These models are not 'barely capable', they're contemporary near frontier.

I do have a 128gb mac, and the experience is, for my use cases, hobby grade. I use models on a daily basis for design work (chiefly), and sometimes implementation work. I can't justify a drop in output quality and significantly increased waiting time. Sure, if frontier did not exist, I'd use them, but way differently than fable or astra.

If I had 0 privacy concerns I could just use deepseek directly in the cloud but the whole point is to not put your data on someone else's computer.

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