This is sadly also my experience. I wish we had some MoE models with a higher ratio of active parameters per total. My experience is that the newer MoE models that can run in a 64b laptop have too few active parameters to be useful outside narrower, specific tasks. Mixtral 8x7b was a 14b active parameter (56b total) MoE model a few years ago and was probably the best model one could run in that range for some time, but it is too old now.

I have been using the qwen 27b and it is great, but running a dense model like this in a macbook is a bit suboptimal, and i wish I could run sth faster than 15 tok/s.