Local image generation on Mac: 10 models compared (SD 1.5 → Flux dev → Qwen-Image → Gemini)
Tested 10 image generation models on M1 Max 64GB for photorealism, text rendering, and cultural accuracy (Japanese/Asian content). Key findings: Qwen-Image Lightning (8-step distillation) beats the full model in quality while being 9x faster (10…