Running Qwen 35BA3B on a 16GB M3 Macbook Air at 8.9TPS!
Preface: I actually write my posts myself, no slop in this post.
I managed to get Qwen 3.5 35BA3B working on my 15" 16GB M3 MBA through mmap, and I must say that given the massive model compared to my ram, 9 TPS is not bad at all.
So, how did I do it?
Step one, download the model itself:
pip3 install huggingface-hub
python3 -c "from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download; \
hf_hub_download('unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF', \
'Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-UD-IQ3_XXS.gguf', \
local_dir='~/.local/share/ll
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