TurboQuant on a MacBook Pro: two findings the upstream discussion missed

Originally published at llmkube.com/blog/turboquant-m5-max-long-context . Cross-posted here for the dev.to audience. A 7-hour overnight bench on an M5 Max, two findings I haven't seen in the upstream community thread, and two PRs back to the LLMKube operator to make TurboQuant a first-class citizen of the InferenceService CRD. TL;DR A TurboQuant-enabled llama-server on Apple Silicon runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q8 at up to 1M-token context on a 128 GB MacBook Pro M5 Max. Standard f16 KV cache OOMs at 25