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can it run

Can the Mac mini M6 (16GB) run qwen3 14B?

TIGHT

Yes, but close to the edge. 16GB against a 12GB working set: it runs, with little room for long context windows or other processes.

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Specs

model file9.3GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory12GB working set
this machine16GB unified (config to 32GB)
params14B
licenseapache-2.0
price$899

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull qwen3:14b

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

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