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I made my iPhone a second GPU for my 24 GB MacBook: Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster & my holds part of the CTX window.

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  1. 2026-10-02 17:16 · r/LocalLLM
    I made my iPhone a second GPU for my 24 GB MacBook: Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster & my holds part of the CTX window.

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