@remilouf: Following @julien_c’s tweet I bought a MacBook Pro with 128B unified memory, and started running Qwen3.6 as my daily dr…
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The author shares their experience running the Qwen3.6 model on a MacBook Pro with 128GB of unified memory, praising Apple's hardware efficiency for local AI inference.
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Following @julien_c’s tweet I bought a MacBook Pro with 128B unified memory, and started running Qwen3.6 as my daily driver. It’s baffling.
Apple outsmarted everyone in this industry.
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