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Local LLMs and Buying a Mac — A Technical Report
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Google's Keyword blog (Gemma 4, 2 Apr 2026; Gemma 4 12B, 3 Jun 2026); Google Developers Blog (Gemma 4, 2 Apr 2026; Gemma 3, 12 Mar 2025); Android Developers Blog; Simon Willison's weblog; Google's Hugging Face model cards for Gemma 4 E2B, E4B, 12B and 26B-A4B; MacRumors (1 May and 25 Jun 2026); NewMobileLife; Apple's Taiwan store; kocpc.com.tw; GitHub issues #15350, #15368 and #14493 on ollama/ollama; Ollama's blog and v0.14.0 release notes; GitHub's changelog; Apple Newsroom (3 Mar 2026); PromptQuorum |
| Timeline | MacRumors (31 Oct 2023, 1 May 2026, 25 Jun 2026); kocpc.com.tw; Google Developers Blog; Android Developers Blog; Simon Willison's weblog; Ollama's blog and v0.14.0 release notes; Apple Newsroom (3 Mar and 22 Sep 2026); Google's Keyword blog (2 Apr and 3 Jun 2026); GitHub issues #15350 and #15368 on ollama/ollama; GitHub's changelog; NewMobileLife; Apple's Taiwan store; PChome 24h 購物 |
| The Argument | Google's Hugging Face model cards for Gemma 4 E2B, E4B, 12B and 26B-A4B; Google Developers Blog (Gemma 3). The halving of a KV cache quantised from 16-bit to 8-bit is arithmetic about the two formats and cites no source |
| What Others Add | GitHub issues #15350, #15368 and #14493 on ollama/ollama; MacRumors (31 Oct 2023); Apple Newsroom (3 Mar 2026); PromptQuorum; Ollama's blog and v0.14.0 release notes; GitHub's changelog |
| Conclusion | Apple's Taiwan store; PChome 24h 購物; NewMobileLife; Google's Hugging Face model card for Gemma 4 26B-A4B; Apple Newsroom (3 Mar and 22 Sep 2026); Apple Support (Mac Studio power consumption); NVIDIA (GeForce RTX 4090 specifications); MacRumors (1 May and 25 Jun 2026) |
What the evidence base looks like
- 28Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 21Read in full
- 7Read only as a search extract
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| The makers' own pages — model cards, announcements, release notes, specifications, store and retailer listings | 18 | Sixteen read in full; two, both Google blog posts, only as a search extract |
| News and trade reporting | 6 | Four read in full; two only as a search extract |
| Community reports and a benchmark blog | 4 | The benchmark blog read in full; the three bug reports only as a search extract, their own pages being unreachable |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing