User runs Qwen3 27B at 0.7 tokens/sec on low-end laptop

A user facing regional payment restrictions reports running a quantized Qwen3 27B via LM Studio on an old laptop with 20GB RAM and 4GB VRAM at only 0.67–0.77 tokens/sec, yet used it to fix bugs in old projects and mod games. With free APIs scarce, local models are his only option; he now plans to try Ornith 1.5 122B.

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