April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive
- Mac mini with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5)
- At least 16GB unified memory for Gemma 4 (default 8B)
- macOS with Homebrew installed
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April 2026 TLDR setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 12B on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon) — auto-start, preload, and keep-alive
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