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MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB — Qwen 3 27B with Ollama is extremely slow

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Hi everyone, I have a MacBook Pro with an M5 Pro and 48GB of RAM , and I’ve been trying to use Qwen 3.8 27B locally through Ollama . My goal is to use it with Claude Code in the terminal , with Claude Code making requests to my local Ollama instance. However, the performance is extremely slow. When…

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    MacBook Pro M5 Pro 48GB — Qwen 3 27B with Ollama is extremely slow

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