alt Hacker News> The article is based on running Qwen 3.6 on a 128GB MacBook Pro. For reference, a 128GB MBP currently starts at $6699 USD [0]
Qwen3.6-27B would be faster on a 3090 that costs around $1000-1200 though so I don't think it's a good counter-argument.
Op just happened to have that MacBook, but it doesn't mean it's necessary to run the model.
That 3090 is going to burn 750W and it will still cap you at a 4 bit quant and ~48K context. Here's someone who worked through it:
https://github.com/noonghunna/qwen36-27b-single-3090
Flies though (50-70tps is impressive for a model this smart)
I went through roughly the same process to get it working on my M2 Macbook Pro... at awful speeds of course, since models like this one are mostly bound by memory bandwidth.