I need an Apple device to learn and develop an app for iOS. Do you think the base model $599 - Apple M4 chip with 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16-core with 16GB is enough to run Xcode and 7B AI?
When you say 7B AI do you mean a 7b parameter LLM? If so, then yes that will be enough!
Yes. Curious do you happen to know what size parameter Bolt is using?
That sounds adequate to me, and will have an M4 coming my way here soon. My one suggestion would be to spend a little more and get yourself 32GB RAM for running 7B models. It’s not necessary per se, but you will find yourself utilizing other memory intensive tasks and will want the breathing room.
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For the 7B, do you think it will work great for Bolt Fork? For standard app making and coding? @ColeMedin thoughts?
Something like Qwen-2.5-Coder-7b will get you pretty far, but smaller LLMs like 7b parameter ones will hallucinate a lot.
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