Unfortunately I didn't get a Mac with big ram at the time it was cheap, and I'd personally focus on moving away from Apple and going Linux fulltime at work and home (currently Macbook for laptop connected to my big rig, well it's not that big compared to the AI people in here).
What kind of RAM does your MacBook have? It might still be worth experimenting w/ DS4 using disk offload, though it would be dog slow at best and the RAM would be much too limited for meaningful parallelism, especially for larger contexts.