Developer Fits Qwen3.8-Flash-Next into 48GB MacBook

Developer Eyal Toledano used pruning and lookup-table techniques to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in 39GB of memory via Q4 quantization on MLX, later clarifying that the 28 tok/s speed applies to high-bandwidth machines like the M4 Max, not the MacBook Air.

2026-08-27 ~ 2026-08-28 · 2 related posts

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• Episode 1: Pruned Qwen3 180B MoE Runs on Laptop with 65GB Footprint(2026-08-27, 2 posts)
• Episode 2: Developer Fits Qwen3.8-Flash-Next into 48GB MacBook(2026-08-27, 2 posts)

• Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Fits on a 48GB MacBook: Pruning + SSD N-gram Table, 39GB RAM — EyalToledano · 2026-08-27
• Two tricks squeeze Qwen3.8-Flash-Next onto a 48GB MacBook Air — EyalToledano · 2026-08-28