M4 Pro MacBook
A MacBook laptop from Apple equipped with the M4 Pro chip and a unified memory architecture, making it suitable for local large-language-model inference workloads.
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An author chained together two gaming PCs, an M4 Pro MacBook and two iPhone 17 Pro Max devices to run Kun 3.8 Flash Next (a 48-layer MoE model with 512 experts per layer), measuring 37-39 tokens/s at a 60k context.
A developer connected an iPhone 17 Pro Max to a 24GB-memory M4 Pro MacBook via a 10 Gb/s USB-C cable, using the phone as a second GPU to share the computational load for a locally running Qwen 3.8 27B (IQ4_XS quantization) model.
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An author chained together two gaming PCs, an M4 Pro MacBook and two iPhone 17 Pro Max devices to run Kun 3.8 Flash Next (a 48-layer MoE model with 512 experts per layer), measuring 37-39 tokens/s at a 60k context.
50%UnverifiedA developer connected an iPhone 17 Pro Max to a 24GB-memory M4 Pro MacBook via a 10 Gb/s USB-C cable, using the phone as a second GPU to share the computational load for a locally running Qwen 3.8 27B (IQ4_XS quantization) model.
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