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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by ufish235 on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:48PM (#49151013)
What laptop?
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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by nozzlegear on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:59PM (#49151070)
It's just a MacBook Air with an M4, cheap and nothing special. I host Qwen on my Mac Studio, an M1 with 64gb ram. The model uses around 20-25gb ram depending on what it's doing.
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Re:Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork by brailsafe on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:16AM (#49151851)
I wonder if I could get this running on my 48gb M4 Pro. Haven't been able to load anything beyond 27B
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