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I just got qwen 3.8 27b mlx running on my Macbook Pro and honestly I’m pretty blown away by how not-dumb it is.
My problem is how hot they run. I'm on an m4 pro. Do you have the same issue?
Someone just mentioned how fast they were burning tokens. I thought it was a metaphor.
I don't have the hardware but a often mentioned advice is to put your mac into energy saving mode - it still will work, a bit slower, but stays cool.
Mineral oil bath?
How many tok/s are you getting? What gen mbp?
how quick does it respond? what are specs of your laptop?
I tried it on my M1 MacBook Pro. It's slow but surprisingly smart as a general purpose LLM. Maybe GPT-5.3 level. I gave it a bunch of tools and it can search the internet, make product recommendations, document, code, etc.
Does it need to respond fast? For important applications, I'm sure we'd all be fine waiting 20 minutes for a high quality, usable answer. Or is it the need for interative refinements that make speed relevant?
Did you read even the title?
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