planning on getting Lenovo Xiaoxin Pro 16 SE (2024) R7-8745HS 32GB LPDDR5x-6400

I am a dev i deal with large codebases and whole lotta compiling i mostly do work in coffee shops so battery is important to me and i use linux and sometimes i do light gaming minecraft and ultrakill and some other indie small indie games

you guys think there is a better option in the same price range(1000$) from china

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u/Friendly-Guard-2395 — 1 day ago

planning on getting Lenovo Xiaoxin Pro 16 SE (2024) R7-8745HS 32GB LPDDR5x-6400

I am a dev i deal with large codebases and whole lotta compiling i mostly do work in coffee shops so battery is important to me and i use linux and sometimes i do light gaming minecraft and ultrakill and some other indie small indie games

you guys think there is a better option in the same price range

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u/Friendly-Guard-2395 — 1 day ago

am getting overwhelmed with legal docs and research and other startup related stuff and i was wondering if glm 5.2 or mimo 2.5 pro can be reliable like sonnet 4.6 max for tasks like that

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u/Friendly-Guard-2395 — 2 months ago

they took down the premium models mid free trial they left me with garbage(except for DS4 and glm 5.1 ) last night i had opus and gpt 5.5 access and today i ain't got nun

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u/Friendly-Guard-2395 — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/opencodeCLI+1 crossposts

Do open-source models like GLM 5.1, Kimi K2.6, DS4P, Qwen 3.6 (and the incoming 3.7) actually live up to the hype? And even if they don’t, do we really need the raw power of frontier models (GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, etc.) for everything

My experience: I’ve tried both frontier US models and Chinese models, and honestly I didn’t notice a huge gap in many real-world scenarios. Fun fact: I actually fixed an architectural flaw introduced by GPT-5.5 using DS4P once. So it makes me wonder whether the extra capability of frontier models is always worth it

  • What tasks do you still think absolutely require frontier models?
  • Where are open-source models already matching or beating them?
  • Performance vs cost vs privacy tradeoffs how do you balance that in your projects?
  • Any memorable wins (or fails) using OSS models that changed how you choose models?

Would love to hear benchmarks, anecdotes, or what you use in production vs prototyping.

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u/Friendly-Guard-2395 — 3 months ago