I do have a 3090 Ti on my gaming PC, but even my old M1 MBP (with a mere 32gb of RAM) is quite competent and can run a quantized `Gemma4-26B-A4B` in the background while I do other stuff.
Where you are developing software. Its significantly faster to use google gemini and copy paste code back and forth compared to having gemini edit files for you.
