Comment by BirAdam

You can get quite good models running on a Mac Studio, but these will not rival a frontier model.

$3,699.00

M4 Max 16c/40c, 128GB of RAM, 1TB SSD.

LM Studio is free and can act as a LLM server or as a chat interface, and it provides GUI management of your models and such. It's a nice easy and cheap setup.