Comment by reactordev

I’ll chime in and say I run LM Studio on my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 with no issues.

I have 16GB ram. I use unsloth quantized models like qwen3 and gpt-oss. I have some MCP servers like Context7 and Fetch that make sure the models have up to date information. I use continue.dev in VSCode or OpenCode Agent with LM Studio and write C++ code against Vulkan.

It’s more than capable. Is it fast? Not necessarily. Does it get stuck? Sometimes. Does it keep getting better? With every model release on huggingface.

Total monthly cost: $0