Summary
A user successfully compiled and ran `llama.cpp` on a new MacBook Neo (featuring an Apple A18 Pro chip and 8GB RAM) with the Qwen3.5 9B Q3_K_M model. While the performance was slow, achieving 7.8 tokens/second for prompting and 3.9 tokens/second for generation, it demonstrates the capability of future Apple silicon to run relatively large language models locally even with limited memory. This highlights the continued progress in making LLMs accessible on consumer hardware.
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