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Hardware reality: RAM, GPU, heat, battery
Apple Silicon shares one memory pool; a PC splits RAM and VRAM. A 7B Q4 on 16 GB is the honest starter: a GPU speeds small models but is not required, and heat plus battery are the tax, not a 4090 for email.
When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok is simply easier
Open weights are a download you can run, not a writing personality, so everyday drafts, tools, and memory still belong on a…
Drive: find, summarize, and organize
Drive plus Gemini helps you find, summarize, and propose organization, but permissions and sensitivity still rule. Part 4 of the Workspace tutorial…
First useful offline tasks
Hana had a 6-hour flight, a 7B already on disk, and a 2,400-word draft that still opened with As an AI. Use…
Safety: random models on the internet
A GGUF from a random Hugging Face account is software you run on your machine. Prefer official orgs and known converters, read…
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