Running Qwen3.8-27B 4-bit and 1-bit on a MacBook Pro M4 Max
Is a 1-bit quantisation really a frontier model on any laptop? We ran Qwen3.8-27B at 1-bit and 4-bit on the same machine and tested both as a Claude Code agent.
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Is a 1-bit quantisation really a frontier model on any laptop? We ran Qwen3.8-27B at 1-bit and 4-bit on the same machine and tested both as a Claude Code agent.
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