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macOS Aerial lock-screen animation cut my local LLM generation speed from 108 to 66 tok/s

While benchmarking local models with oMLX on my MacBook Pro (M2 Max, 32 GB), I found that leaving the Mac locked with the display awake could make the same model much slower than when I was using the desktop. The difference was the Aerial animation: paused on the desktop, playing as video on the lo…

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  1. 2026-10-20 15:09 · r/LocalLLM
    macOS Aerial lock-screen animation cut my local LLM generation speed from 108 to 66 tok/s

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