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I have a MacBook M4 Pro with 48GB unified memory, anyone running Qwen3.8-27B on a similar config? Looking for some advice on what to run as new to LLM’s (Claude user). It seems that maybe a Q6 quant with MLX and some KV tuning is the way to go for good reasoning?

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I appreciate it won’t be lightning fast with the GPU bandwidth only being 273 GB/s, but hoping for something usable to reduce my Claude usage? I use it for website design and basic programming and would priortise accuracy over speed as it’s not my day job. I also have a desktop PC with a 5070Ti, am…

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  1. 2026-09-09 20:11 · r/LocalLLM
    I have a MacBook M4 Pro with 48GB unified memory, anyone running Qwen3.8-27B on a similar config? Looking for some advice on what to run as new to LLM’s (Claude user). It seems that maybe a Q6 quant with MLX and some KV tuning is the way to go for good reasoning?

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