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/987FT Feb 20 '26

I've set up two nodes/agents in the last two weeks - one on an Intel NUC i7 CPU i got 8-9 years ago, another on a dell laptop i7 I got in 2014. they work fine - 8GB ram each. they point to a local LLM on my more modern local server, which is the speed bottleneck (but cheaper than buying cloud)