can it run
Comfortably. 128GB of memory against a 7GB working set leaves headroom for context, the OS, and anything else you're running.
| model file | 4.9GB (GGUF Q4_K_M) |
| minimum memory | 7GB working set |
| this machine | up to 128GB unified (64GB on Yoga 9n) |
| params | 8B |
| license | llama3.1 (gated on HF) |
| price | $None |
easy run: ollama pull llama3.1:8b
runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio
no alternatives — every machine in the catalog can run this one.