[BoorishBears]

I'll say neither of them will do anything for you if you're currently using SOTA closed models in anger and expect that performance to hold.

I'm on a 128GB M4 Max, and running models locally is a curiosity at best given the relative performance.

[daft_pink]

I'm running an M4 Max as well and I found that using project goose works decently well with qwen3 coder loaded on LM Studio (Ollama doesn't do MLX yet unless you build it yourself I think) and configured as an openai model as the api is compatible. Goose adds a bunch of tools and plugins that make the model more effective.

[phonon]

It will be sort of decent on a 4bit 70B parameter model, like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ktS0aG3SMc (deepseek-r1:70b Q4_K_M). But yeah, not great.