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Apple Intelligence consumes up to 30GB on macOS 27, with no way to disable it

MacRumors documents Apple Intelligence consuming 20–30GB across multiple Macs

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Testing reveals Apple Intelligence allocates significantly more storage than Apple's published specifications. An M4 Pro Mac mini showed 20.67GB, an M3 MacBook Air 22.42GB, and one Reddit user reported 30.16GB on an M3 Pro MacBook Pro running macOS 27 Release Candidate. Apple specifies up to 14GB for M3-or-newer Macs and 8GB for others, but actual consumption varies widely.

MacRumors documents Apple Intelligence consuming 20–30GB across multiple Macs
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“AI model storage allocation appears to be considerably higher on some Macs than others.”

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