Discovering Mistral 7B on Mac Mini M4 with Apple Silicon Monitoring
2025-10-24 - Discovering Mistral 7B on Mac Mini M4 with Apple Silicon Monitoring 🎯 Key Insights Undocumented Infrastructure: Ollama + Mistral 7B installed 4 days prior but completely missing from Memory Bank documentation Apple Silicon Monitoring Gap: btop GPU monitoring is Linux-only; asitop is the correct tool for M4 GPU/Neural Engine observation M4 Efficiency Characteristics: Inference so fast (40-80 tokens/sec) that GPU activity appears as brief power blips rather than sustained load 📝 What Happened Session started with a simple question: “Did we install Mistral on here?” Memory Bank had no record of it, but systematic search revealed Ollama v0.12.6 with Mistral 7B fully operational, installed approximately October 20th. ...