I came across news about Lenovo’s new machine, the IdeaPad Vibe, these past few days. As someone who has been waiting for the Windows camp to respond since March or April, after reading through the coverage, all I can say is… come on, is that it?

Lately I’ve been working on integrating several AI applications, which means I need to switch between different models. That’s when I discovered a problem — the APIs of OpenAI and Anthropic are incompatible.

Yesterday I got an email from LeanCloud saying they’re shutting down service…. Wait, what?

To do some small-scale model training at work, I eventually recommended buying a Mac Mini. The reasoning wasn’t complicated: I needed it for bioinformatics analysis, running agent deployments, and occasionally training models with modest parameter counts — these scenarios are exactly where M-series chips with unified memory shine. The cost of separate RAM plus a large-VRAM GPU far exceeds the Mac platform; do the math and the choice is clear.

And just like that, I unlocked the achievement of pushing forward multiple devices, multiple platforms, and multiple projects all at once.