So I tried Gemma4 on that mini PC I reviewed recently as part of my self-hosting post, and I gotta say, this is getting very close to being something a normie could run locally.
This computer just has 24GB RAM & a mobile-grade Ryzen APU and it’s running great. Not the fastest but more than enough.
Ernie Smith
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