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can it run

Can the Mac mini M5 Pro (64GB) run qwen3.8 27B?

YES

Comfortably. 64GB of memory against a 21GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.

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Specs

model file16.5GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory21GB working set
this machineup to 64GB unified
params27B
licenseapache-2.0
price$1669

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull qwen3.8:27b

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — this model on the biggest machine

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