Can I run LM Studio?

LM Studio by LM Studio: the publisher’s own system requirements, checked against your exact laptop.

Minimum requirements

CPU: Apple Silicon on Mac (Intel Macs are not supported); AVX2 instruction set support required on Windows x64
OS: macOS 14.0 or newer on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4); Windows x64 or ARM (Snapdragon X Elite); Linux x64 or ARM64

Recommended requirements

GPU: Windows: at least 4 GB of dedicated VRAM recommended
RAM: 16 GB
OS: macOS 14.0 or newer on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4); Windows x64 or ARM (Snapdragon X Elite); Linux x64 or ARM64

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Which laptops can reach 16 GB of RAM?

290 of 317 laptops in our database support at least 16 GB of RAM (the model’s documented maximum). That is capacity, not what ships in the box — check your exact configuration, and see whether your model’s RAM can be upgraded.

Where these requirements come from

LM Studio (Documentation) — LM Studio system requirements · retrieved 9/20/2026

minimum: LM Studio does not publish a hard minimum RAM. It states 8 GB Macs may still work with smaller models and modest context sizes.
recommended: 16 GB or more of RAM recommended (Mac and Windows); larger models need more.

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