Benefits
- Low heat and battery drain for long local runs.
- Solid driver support for common AI and dev stacks.
- Fast I/O keeps model pulls and builds predictable.
Prerequisites
- Apple Silicon hardware (M1/M2/M3).
- Enough RAM for your largest local model.
Quick snippets
uname -m
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Chip"Resources
Where it fails
Large models still hit memory ceilings and can bottleneck on unified memory bandwidth.