Author: Jose S
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…
When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok is simply easier
Open weights are a download you can run, not a writing personality. Everyday drafts, tools, and memory still belong on a Plus or Pro chat around $20 as…
Drive: find, summarize, and organize
Drive plus Gemini can find, summarize, and propose organization, but permissions still rule. Summaries inherit sensitivity, and you move the files yourself.
First useful offline tasks
Use a local model already on disk to rewrite, outline, extract fields, or quiz yourself from your own file. Skip live web facts, citations, current prices, and anything…
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 the model card, match file size…
