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A developer connected an iPhone 17 Pro Max to a 24GB-memory M4 Pro MacBook via a 10 Gb/s USB-C cable, using the phone as a second GPU to share the computational load for a locally running Qwen 3.8 27B (IQ4_XS quantization) model.
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10/2/2026
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UnverifiedLocal inference is constrained by the user's hardware: a 7B-parameter quantized model (such as the Q4 version of Llama 3 8B) has a file size of approximately 4–5 GB, can reach 20–40 tokens per second on a Mac with an Apple M-series chip, and may drop to 3–5 tokens per second on a laptop with only an integrated GPU and 8 GB of RAM.78% similarUnverifiedThe 4-bit quantized weights of Qwen3 27B are only approximately 16.1 GB, allowing it to run on a MacBook Pro/Mac Studio with 32 GB of memory or a consumer-grade GPU with approximately 17 GB of VRAM.75% similar
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