01 May 7, 2026 · 11 min read
Local LLM models in 2026 - what actually runs on a Mac mini M4 16 GB
A review of the current models worth pulling onto 16 GB unified memory: gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 e4b, Qwen3-Coder, Phi-4. What works, what doesn't, and why.