Mac Heads: Is there any point to MLX in September 2026?

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This may be somewhat specific to Qwen3.8 27b and the Apple M5 series, perhaps, but enough of us are running this combo that it's worth tossing out there. GGUF models with MTP have been the fastest way to go for some time for token generation, except possibly for a few tweaked MTPLX models running on alpha-stage MLX forks. Prefill, however, was still much faster for M5s under MLX. This has caused me to switch models depending on the expected generation/prefill mix, which is annoying. While I wasn