Coding with AI / MacBook Air M1
MacBook Air M1
Memory: 8 / 16 GB.
Memory bandwidth: 68.25 GB/s.
Generation speed is bound by the chip's bandwidth; memory decides which models fit.
fits, but slowDevstral Small 268% on SWE-bench Verifiedfrozen~4 tok/s · estimated How to run
Devstral Small 2 ceiling
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Score: 68% (SWE-bench Verified),
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Speed: 4 tok/s (estimate: bandwidth-bound approximation)
- Conditions: engine llama.cpp, quant Q4_K_M, context 128
- Min memory: 16 GB
- Command:
llama-server -m devstral-small-2-Q4_K_M.gguf
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Ceiling timeline
The strongest model fitting MacBook Air M1 (16 GB) at its release date, by SWE-bench Verified.
- 2025-08-05 gpt-oss-20b 60.7%
- 2025-12-09 Devstral Small 2 68%