I ran a local LLM on my underpowered Chromebook, and it actually works

A writer ran a local LLM on a severely underpowered Chromebook (4GB RAM, Intel UHD 600, 32GB SSD) and found it actually works. After an initial crash with LLM Hub loading Ministral 3B, they succeeded using LM Playground with Gemma 4 E2B. Performance is slow but functional for offline brainstorming, light research, and structured queries. The app includes built-in web search and JavaScript tools without needing MCP setup. The experiment confirms that modern small models can run on very constrained hardware, with Termux/llama.cpp as a next step for more flexibility.

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