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c16 | on: Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
Some advice I got from another HN Mac user was to run local models in energy saver mode. You'll get slightly reduced tokens, but the laptop won't overheat and the fans won't go wild.
leansensei | parent | next
And if you're running it on a dGPU, power limit it, because you lose very little in terms of token generation performance, since it's memory-bound.
fragmede | parent
Oh. I've been using an icepack under my laptop to keep mine cool. I'm watching it with llamatop to see if the GPU is actually active or not, aw activity monitor wasn't showing me what I wanted.
hooli_gan | root | parent
That's exactly how i fried a laptop. The condensation killed it.