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Old Zhang's AI Learning
Mar 19, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Testing the Hot oMLX on Mac: Claude‑Opus‑4.6 Distilled and Qwen3.5‑9B Performance Review

The article evaluates oMLX, a Mac‑only LLM runtime built on Apple Silicon and MLX, by walking through installation, UI features, memory usage, single‑request speed, benchmark results for Claude‑Opus‑4.6 and Qwen3.5‑9B, continuous batch processing gains, Claude Code optimizations, multi‑model support, and the failure to run a 27B model.

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Testing the Hot oMLX on Mac: Claude‑Opus‑4.6 Distilled and Qwen3.5‑9B Performance Review