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Which machine should I buy to run AI locally?

Three questions. One ranked answer, learned from what people in your situation actually picked.

Question 1 of 3

What is your budget?

Question 2 of 3

What do you want to run?

Model size drives everything else.

Question 3 of 3

Where will it live?

Answer the 3 questions and your agent ranks the options.
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intermediate

Run a local LLM at home

From a $800 Mac mini to a 512GB Mac Studio: the hardware that actually fits the model you want.

7 items · 3 tiers$2,900–$3,700

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