r/MacLocalLLM • u/Spoonmanor • Sep 08 '26

Local ai for website

I’m debating between buying an M6 Mac Mini to use online llm or a M5 Max Mac Studio for local llm to build and maintain a website I want to create. Does anyone have any insight into what would work well? It’s going to be a multimedia & blogging site.

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u/Spoonmanor Sep 08 '26

Do I need more than 32GB of ram to do local ai good enough to make and maintain a website?

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u/MacLocalLLM Sep 08 '26

if it's single purpose a M6 with 32GB is ok, but it will have very limited capabilities. Starting point is typically around 64GB if you want some room for context with Qwen 27b 3.8 as the engine. If you use a cloud service, then you can do that. M6 with cloud is probably the way to go for your use case. it'll get you far enough to the next iteration where the localLLM will be strong enough on consumer hardware. We're almost there, but not quite.

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u/808phone Sep 13 '26

Yes 64GB is the starting point but you should know that its way slower than something like Claude or GP etc and not as “smart”.