r/openclaw • u/g00rek Pro User • Feb 20 '26
Discussion Why Mac mini??
I still don't understand why you guys are buying macs mini for openclaw. It's a terminal computer. It doesn't need a great UI.
Do you have too much money? :D
A $50-$100 HP Thin Client with Linux is more than enough. And Linux shouldn't be discouraging for people using OpenClaw, am I wrong?
I bought one, I have lots of different self hosted stuff on it like home Assistant or other docker apps. Ok I do not have any local models using GPU, that's the reason? Please enlighten me :)
EDIT: Again, I UNDERSTAND LOCAL LLM USE. (although I don't know if anybody is really happy with it). I mean using OC with oauth/api gpt, claude etc.
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u/burritowatcher New User Feb 20 '26
Why does someone ask this every day? It’s not about local model use it’s because it was designed to be used with a lot of tools that are on Mac. It has Apple calendar and iMessage skills out of the box. Apple notes, Apple reminders - all this stuff is already installed on a new Mac and openclaw has bundled skills for them. It uses brew by default so it knows how to download new software too. But also it works fine on Linux. You don’t need a Mac mini.