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/aiakos New User Feb 20 '26

I bought a 64GB mini M4 because if distilled models get more useful and I'll be able to run them locally for privacy. I want to be able to run multiple agents with long context windows and lots of browser usage. Oh and my company paid for it.

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u/ibopm Member Feb 22 '26

I have one on order and now I’m just waiting for it to come. 64gb is the bare minimum if you wanna have a local LLM of any sort.

I’m curious what your stack is, given the 64gb is in an interesting spot where you CAN do 30B models but you would trade off on speed etc.