// Posts tagged: apple-silicon

A busy 18GB laptop gives way to a dedicated 24GB Mac mini as the target for local Hermes inference. Real Telegram context readings narrow the candidates to Qwen3.5-9B and Nemotron 3 Nano 4B before testing begins.

Apple’s Minions research turns idle Macs into inference workers. Comparing it with NVIDIA PAIR and an existing homelab router reveals three different jobs, a reason to wait, and a more useful role for the household Mac mini.