I am currently using a local model qwen3:8b running on a 2020 (2018 intel chip) Mac mini for classifying news headlines and it's working decently well for my task. Each headline takes about 2-3 seconds but is pretty accurate. Uses about 5.3 gigs of ram.
Can you expand a bit on your software setup? I thought running local models was restricted to having expensive GPUs or latest Apple Silicon with unified memory. I have a Intel 11th gen home server which I would like to use to run some local model for tinkering if possible.
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