m2 max 64gb vs m4 max 36gb vs 5070 pc?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I’m trying to understand whether buying a future/possible MacBook M5 with 16GB, 24GB, or 32GB unified memory would make sense

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So this is probably a pretty common thing, but I just want to ask in case am not missing something. I have pretty much no knowledge but trying to

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>&quot;Hardware is the only moat&quot;.</p> <p>I read that quote yesterday, and at first, I thought it was just another person trying to sound

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am currently on an m3 mbp with 24gb ram. For regular python and django work the machine is perfect and i have no need to upgrade for speed. but

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm looking to get a view on what the community think are the best Local LLMs for Coding ? and what's your go to resources for setting up things

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I was wondering if there are any good performing models in 2026 that I can run on this hardware? And if so, what is the best one in your opinion?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Today I set up a full coding toolbox on a single RTX 5080 (with RAM offloading) that's actually viable.</p> <p><strong>Autocomplete</strong>:

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hey, </p> <p>Tldr: use local models like qwen 3.5 quantized with proprietary models for fire and forget work. Local model doing the grunt work.