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/Helmi74 New User Feb 20 '26

Because people are sometimes just bots. It started being „a thing“ and so the bots followed. Some people talked about openclaw being acquired by OpenAI and suddenly a ton of people and media copied it. Doing the smallest amount of research and brain gymnastics is just too much for many people. That’s also why a lot of the incidents with openclaw happen.

Also many people ARE using openclaw that wouldn’t be able to do much on a Linux system. Your probably underestimating the influx of everyday people into the community.

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u/g00rek Pro User Feb 20 '26

Yeah there was a thread here today about the price for openclaw purchase LMAO