What do you use it for? I tend to just stick to SOTA (Claude 4.7 Max thinking), and put up with the slow req/response. I'm not sure what type of work i'd trust a less thinking model, as my intuition is built around what Claude vSOTA Max can handle.

Nonetheless eventually i want to build an at-home system. I imagine some smaller local model could handle metadata assignment quite well.

edit: Though TIL Mac Studio doesn't offer 512GB anymore... DRAM shortage lol. Rough.

I am experimenting with some game development and my thesis' beamer. I have a 20$ Codex account and I use GPT-5.5 for planning and DeepSeek for executing in OpenCode. This makes my Codex 5h tokens to last more than 10 minutes.

Apple just dropped the 128GB option as well.