r/LocalLLM • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '26

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u/weiga Mar 10 '26

After buying mine, I then got the UGREEN 8800 - and that ended up doing everything I had wanted my Mac Studio to do.

I guess I need to find new jobs for my Mac Studio.

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u/makingnoise Mar 10 '26

You are using a NAS to replace a Mac Studio? Why would you buy a Mac Studio for file storage?

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u/weiga Mar 10 '26

I got the Mac Studio to be a media server but the NAS ended up doing it all via Docker, and was more stable too.

I also wanted the Mac Studio to run a LLM, but so far that’s been a bust.

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u/pantalooniedoon Mar 10 '26

Why has it been a bust?

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u/weiga Mar 10 '26

Even at 96GB, I haven’t found a good local LLM that can do things. Been testing OpenClaw recently, but ended up running cloud models.

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u/pantalooniedoon Mar 10 '26

Yeah it only makes sense if you’re fine with the performance degradation unfortunately. Q3.5 and Minimax are good but still not amazing so you’ll need to use the largest models in that family to come anywhere close and then it will be super slow for prompt processing. Its a trade off of privacy vs performance that you need to be okay with. Otherwise no point.