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Developer reports Qwen3.6-35B model running locally on MacBook Pro M5 Max matches Claude's performance with 64K context window

r/LocalLLaMA · April 19, 2026

Developer reports Qwen3.6-35B model running locally on MacBook Pro M5 Max matches Claude's performance with 64K context window

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  • •User successfully deployed Qwen3.6-35B with 8-bit quantization on MacBook Pro M5 Max (128GB RAM) via LM Studio and OpenCode
  • •Model demonstrates strong performance on complex coding tasks including multi-step debugging of Android serialization issues with multiple tool calls
  • •Response speed is notably fast and handles long research contexts efficiently, making it suitable as a daily driver replacement for previous Kimi K2.5 setup
  • •Local deployment eliminates privacy concerns about sending proprietary codebases to external AI service providers
  • •Post compares favorably against other tested models including Gemma4s, Qwen3 Coder Next, and Nemotron variants
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