I run Qwen 3.6 on my Framework Desktop 128GB, and it's very performant. I know Framework has had to raise the price since I preordered mine, but they're still well under half the cost of that Macbook.

I get ~55 Tok/s on my framework desktop with the 35B A3B q8 model, and so far am also very happy with the coding performance.

There are several variants of Qwen 3.6, the MoE models are performant on Strix Halo, but the 27B dense model (the one spoken about in TFA, and generally regarded as the best of the group in terms of quality) is not so performant: https://kyuz0.github.io/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes/