alt Hacker NewsAn M4 mini is overkill just to run OpenClaw. I'm running it on a Pentium J5005 and it's running 20 other services in Docker. I think the main thing was many wanted it to be able to access iMessage. I think people dream of also using the mac to run the LLM but the 16gb ones don't have enough ram.
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apexalpha • today at 8:44 AM
When they say 'due to openclaw' they refer to running AI models that openclaw uses, not to openclaw itself.
amelius • today at 7:32 AM
People are running openclown on microcontrollers.
You can run nullclaw etc on a Pi zero. People who are paying big $ are mostly trying to run local LLMs.
Personally, I would rather pay a few bucks for Qwen or just use gemma4 which runs on a potato. But I guess we are all different.