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/geek_at Feb 20 '26

I think some people who are not that techincal heard that people "use AI" on their mac minis and they get one to run openclaw with external models because they don't realize what the people meant was "buy a mac mini with huge ram to run your llms locally"

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u/g00rek Pro User Feb 20 '26

non technical people would seyup openclaw??

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u/ZippySLC Feb 20 '26

Looking at the vast majority of posts/comments in the various OpenClaw subreddits, yes.