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Nov 2, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why 70B Struggles on 64GB MacBook Pro: 5 Deployment Iron Laws

This guide details five iron laws for deploying large language models on a 64GB MacBook Pro with M5 Pro chip, covering memory budgeting (45GB usable), model tier recommendations (32B smooth, 70B borderline), inference engine selection, speedup techniques like speculative decoding, and API serving best practices.