Faster AI on a Mac!

Wed 4/1/26 9:21am

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Fun

If you use Ollama!

And you have an M5!

And at least 32 GB of RAM!

And you use the one specific model that they worked with Apple to support!

Somehow my excitement went down with each sentence…

Same prompt, different models

I took a sample from the less-than-fully-dressed dynamic prompts and handed it to three versions of Z-Image Turbo (standard, NSFW v5 & v6), Z-Image Base, Flux.2-Klein-9d, and Qwen Image 2512. Mostly the same parameters, except for increasing steps from 20 to 30 for ZI Base, Klein, and Qwen, and increasing CFG to 6 for ZI Base. I generated 10 images for each model, with random seeds, and kept the best 3.

Prompt:

Painting in the style of Delphin Enjolras, intimate portraits of women in interiors, soft pastel and oil technique, smooth sensual textures, dramatic chiaroscuro from warm lamplight, glowing warm palette, quiet, serene atmosphere. Of a elegant, tiny, Caucasian, college-age sexy woman with pear-shaped figure, luminous Dark brown eyes, delicately lobed Ears, subtly Aquiline Nose, perfectly tapered Chin, pointed Jaw, soft Rosy Cheeks, narrow Forehead, oval face shape, Prom makeup with healthy Reddish-Brown skin and White hair, softly curled into a low, romantic updo, with subtle highlights of champagne blonde, and her mood is cheerful. Standing forward bend, knees slightly bent, torso lowered, arms extended to floor, wrists aligned, neck elongated, collarbones gracefully defined. Her location is Historic Thera, Greece. Cool under-cabinet LED creates task lighting; functional focused illumination; clean kitchen-like quality. She is wearing pastel purple scalloped lace glossy ribbon with a delicate sheen, and a pastel purple tassel necklace.

Not a single image paid any attention to “Historic Thera, Greece”; most of them ignored “soft pastel and oil technique” (with standard ZIT going all-in on the pastels but doing nothing painterly; this is much more pronounced than the usual ZIT low-contrast that people work around with LUTs). The early mention of “women in interiors” seems to have combined with “clean kitchen-like quality” at the end to put them all into a generic Western-style kitchen, without even adding a window for the standard Santorini tourist view. The LLM “enhancement” to the prompt did add some interesting elements to her looks, but also made some of the sentences borderline incoherent.

As you can see, there’s no mention of nudity and naughty bits, with the only mention of clothing being a ribbon and a tassel, so it was up to the model to decide how much, and which, skin was showing.

Klein, like its resource-intensive parent Flux.2-Dev, had the best grasp of style. Speed-wise, standard ZIT was the fastest at 28 seconds, then the NSFW versions (+15%), then Klein (+50%), then Qwen (+140%), and finally ZI Base (+246%). The full Flux.2-Dev has a tendency to run out of memory on my machine at this resolution (1248x1824), but it’s safe to assume the results would be “very similar to Klein but better”.

(note there’s already a v6.1 for ZIT NSFW, but it’s locked away for another week…)