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can it run

Can the Mac mini M4 Pro (64GB) run WHISPER medium?

YES

Comfortably. 64GB of memory against a 4GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

~48–70 tok/s

weights 3.1GB + KV cache 2GB at 4k context vs ~62GB usable → full. 5.1 GB needed of 62 GB usable — headroom for context

computed roofline: 273 GB/s × 0.55–0.80 efficiency window / 3.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file3.1GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory4GB working set
this machine64GB unified
paramsmedium
licenseapache-2.0
price$2199

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: no stock runtime yet

Alternatives

no alternatives — every machine in the catalog can run this one.

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