Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B is surprisingly OK on a medium-range business laptop (Lenovo).

A bit slow for agentic coding of course but fine for any chatbot use-case.

A MacBook Pro is probably the best bang for your buck. I have a 64gb m4 max, but you’ll run decent models with half that ram I think.

Any good models that do not need a dedicated GPU?