> "Man you Apple Fans really live under a rock... ...refurbished 3090 is 2500"

Before you make assumptions, there are valid reasons for the choice I made:

I paid $1k for a refurbished M1 Max 64GB macbook that can run Qwen 3.8 27B at 24tok/sec (looks like they are about $1.5k on ebay). In my case, Apple was a lot cheaper (used) if you're looking at price-per-token. Yes, it's almost twice as slow as a 3090, but it's also half the price /performance ratio.

Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 with 64k:

3090: ~40tok/sec

M1 Max : ~24tok/sec (MLX)

In fact, the Max can even do 265k context which isn't possible with a single 3090 last I checked (without dropping to Q3-Q2)