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Run Llama 4 Scout on Unified Memory (Strix Halo & Mac Studio)

A quality Q4 Scout wants ~62GB — which no single consumer GPU has, but a 96–128GB Strix Halo or Mac Studio holds whole. Why unified memory is Scout's natural home, and the one honest trade-off.

Aliteq Team · Sep 22 · 8 min

Illustration of a person holding a mini-PC whose large memory pool fits a big AI model

Hardware

The Best Mini-PC for Local AI in 2026 (Unified Memory, Honestly)

A book-sized box with 128GB of unified memory can run models no single consumer GPU can hold. The honest hub for the whole category — Strix Halo, Mac Studio and DGX Spark — and when a GPU still wins.

Aliteq Team · Aug 4 · 10 min

Macro shot of a system-on-chip on a circuit board, representing the Strix Halo APU

how to turn 128GB of RAM into 96GB of AI memory: the Strix Halo VRAM trick nobody explains

AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 lets you hand up to 96GB of its unified memory to the GPU — enough to run a 70-billion-parameter model on a mini-PC. Here's exactly how much you can allocate, how to do it, and the catch.

Aliteq Team · Jul 27 · 9 min

Framework Desktop mini-PC, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo)

Hardware

a Strix Halo mini-PC runs a 120-billion AI model at home. ask it to run a 70B and it chokes

the Framework Desktop and its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 twins hand you ~96GB of GPU memory for less than one RTX 5090 costs today — enough to load models no single consumer GPU can touch. whether they actually run fast comes down to one word: bandwidth.

Aliteq Team · Jul 19 · 7 min