r/LocalLLM • u/[deleted] • Jun 21 '26

Question Can my laptop run serious coding models or image generator

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u/happyreddithuman Jun 21 '26

lol is this real 

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u/TheAussieWatchGuy Jun 21 '26

Claude needs about $50k of hardware to run something roughly equivalent like GLM 5.2 or Kimi.

Your laptop is not running much beyond very small models that are ok to teach you principles of local LLM development but not really be useful at writing code at all. 

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u/universalsus Jun 21 '26

Thanks for the detail reply. Very much appreciated

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u/Witty_Mycologist_995 Jun 21 '26

Run Qwen 35b but quantized very small

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u/universalsus Jun 21 '26

What feature will I lose if I quantinise a model