I love your enthusiasm, however stop buying Mac Minis. You can run OpenClaw on almost anything. Mine is running on a laptop from 2016.
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Hoy estoy solo con una notebook
I've run it on an LXC with 20GBs of ROM and 2GB of RAM, lol
That’s not cute enough.
True. People are buying them with the wrong specs / intentions. A $2600 Mac mini will actually run decent Qwen models on board and can mitigate token costs with a good routing policy, and/or an operator who knows when to delegate to cloud models. What seems expensive up front can actually be a good investment saving hundreds in tokens per month. (Depends on user of course… you are probably right for most people)
My use cases don't justify running local models as they can't compete with Claude Opus. When that changes I'll run them locally, but not on a Mac.
I run the rust implementation on my fridge
Seriously?
Does it look like this now?
thinkpad with pop!_is 😅
Doing like u , laptop 2013. But the token costs are pilling for the basic stuff. I think in the end (6 months) a Mac mini running local LLm for majority of stuff will cost the same as my old laptop running all on pay per use tokens. Also some anonymity advantages. 100 usd here and there on tokens to configure files pile up quickly
Mac mini fallback plan is a Minecraft host tho
Local and open source LLMs just aren't good enough for my use cases at this time. I look forward to when this changes.
Have you got it to take over the world yet?
I low keys still want it for iMessage though so I can show my friends the future
Only $50/month
The iMessage integration kinda sucks. Breaks all of the markdown formatting in your bots responses. Also kinda slow
Thank you for saving me so I didn’t have to learn this myself 🙏
You’re welcome. I plugged mine into an internal chat tool I have for my company so my staff and I can all dm or engage in the team chat. He’s nice and fast there. I also just ssh into his box a lot and interact from the shell. I hope to look into marmot protocol this weekend for more secure mobile chat than my company app
Marmot is so hot right now
@Sam @Derek Ross
My goal for 2026 is to convert you away from Apple and Microsoft.
Still working on it, boss.
Have you got it to do anything useful?
PS if I'm the boss then when you do take over the world it's my world
Hi am expect and
Tim Apple do not need that
I agree that for hard lifting it wont do it.. but the simple tasks..
sure, i sometimes switch to Sonnet for some conversations, but i wouldn't use anything but Opus to research or build.
Unless you are using a local llm, buy a Mac Studio 😆
How dare you inform me 3 weeks late
How is your exo, I plan to try the same.
Anyone with experience running it on the new Umbrel ?