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MacBook Air M1 8GB

macOS $699

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Chip

Apple M1

RAM

8GB unified memory

GPU

7-core GPU

AI accelerator

16-core Neural Engine

The 16GB M1 Air opens up reasoning models that simply can't fit in 8GB.

MacBook Air M1 · $899

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LM Studio

BeginnerFree

Beautiful desktop app for running local AI models

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Lightweight CLI tool for running models in the background

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Open-source ChatGPT-like desktop app

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