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Also in the “glad I got 64gb” camp - even though it seemed ridiculous when I bought it, technology has advanced so quickly that now it’s actually very useful.

Now I wish I’d bought 4tb rather than 2tb hard drive lol but that’s just me being lazy - that upgrade definitely felt like a step too far.

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Would you recommend the 64 over 128? What kind of models will 128 open up over 64? Can you get most of them out of the 64?

I’m not sure, not really an expert in this field, just casually interested as an outsider. When I bought my Mac, 64 was as high as you could go.

For LLM models, TheBloke has provided memory requirements for all of their quantisations. For Apple Silicon you want to look at the GGUF models.

Here's Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-G...

64GB of memory will struggle on 65-70B (or bigger) models, and you'll be limited to running 70B on Q3 or Q4 if you want to use it somewhat comfortably.

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