April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama + Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini (Apple Silicon)
Summary
TL;DR guide for running Gemma 4 26B on an Apple Silicon Mac mini with Ollama. It details prerequisites, install steps, model pull, testing, auto-start at login, preloading, and keeping the model loaded, plus API access and a note on memory usage and Ollama 0.19+ features.