I tested local AI on my M1 Mac, expecting magic – and got a reality check instead
The M1 MacBook Pro is an old but still capable device in 2026. Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Ollama makes it fairly easy to download open-source LLMs. Even small models can run painfully slow. Don’t try this without a new machine with 32GB of RAM….
