Comment by dofm

You might be interested in Ornith 1.0 9B, which is a new intriguing post-training of Qwen 3.5 9B.

Qwen 3.6 27B will run in full offload with a 4-bit quantisation in 64GB on an M1 Max. It is quite slow.

I don't know about 48GB but 64GB should be enough.