Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by iagooar on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:44PM (#48724959)

Just buy a Mac Mini really is good advice if you want to get into real, always-on convenient agentic work.

Soon it is going to be good even for coding using local LLMs. Until then, just run API models on it for coding, local LLMs for "knowledge" work or daily driver agent like Hermes.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by marcuskaz on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:48PM (#48725024)

Except they're not available, 3-4 month wait time.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by iagooar on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:14PM (#48725328)

Buy a refurished or 2nd hand one.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by 1over137 on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:52PM (#48725780)

Also not really available.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by klardotsh on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:49PM (#48726357)

Especially with anything resembling a usable amount of RAM. Mac Minis and Studios >=64GB are basically permanently sold out everywhere, because everyone, including commercial entities with deeper pockets than most of us plebs, has the exact same idea at the exact same time.

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Re:Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development by KiwiJohnno on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:31PM (#48727132)

I ordered a mac mini m4 pro with 48 gb of ram a couple of weeks ago. Apple said 8-9 weeks.

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