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I’m interested in running llms locally but of course everything is so expensive right now, I don’t own a graphics card, and my homelab is running on Mini PCs and SFF towers so adding a GPU isn’t an easy task.

I am looking to buy something but I'm not sure what. My llm use is generally, writing email structures (I then take the format and write it in one hit, vibe coding productivity tools for one, my hope is to plan and refine locally if I can’t build locally ask a cloud llm to do it.

I’m also running sub/wave and would like to host that locally but it’s quite happy running Ollama cloud model.

I want the most ”bang for buck” options. I’ve Not got the deepest pockets, and was thinking along the lines of a used M series Mac Mini But wanted to know how Many other options there are.