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@karminski3: Thinking of buying a Mac to run large models? This is a deterrent post. Actually, the estimation method is simple. Even if you buy a MacStudio to run the Qwen3.6-27B 4bit quantized version, then enable DFlash to use Qwen's built-in speculative decoding, it only reaches 65 token/s. And now most large models can run at 40 token/s…

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The author calculates the token cost and break-even period of running large models on a Mac Studio, concluding that it is not cost-effective for ordinary users to buy a Mac for personal large model use, and suggests that using APIs or renting GPUs is more economical.

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