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Running Qwen 35BA3B on a 16GB M3 Macbook Air at 8.9TPS!

Via r/LocalLlama
Friday, May 1, 2026 · 9:36AM
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Preface: I actually write my posts myself, no slop in this post. I managed to get Qwen 3.5 35BA3B working on my 15" 16GB M3 MBA through mmap, and I must say that given the massive model compared to my ram, 9 TPS is not bad at all. So, how did I do it? Step one, download the model itself: pip3 instal

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