[marcuskaz]

Inventory is tight too, if you look at delivery/shipping times for Mac Studio and Mac Mini, I'm seeing April/May

[kmfrk]

A lot of people also got into buying Macs for OpenClaw, so demand is probably up as well.

[copperx]

What's the deal with the Mac Mini and Openclaw? a vps is a better alternative.

is it because iMessage?

[andai]

You do actually need to run it on a Mac, if (and only if!) you require integration with Mac-only software. But the main factor is probably just "all the cool kids are doing it" ;)

[kube-system]

iMessage… and safari. Browsing the web from a headless vps has hurdles.

[Imustaskforhelp]

> safari. Browsing the web from a headless vps has hurdles

Hooking things up to puppeteer maybe?

You can use pupeteer to then use the chromium control remote (debug?) option iirc which uses websockets underneath the hood

Then you can connect this from your pc or theoretically any Control server. Surprised to not hear much work on that front now that you mention it.

[kube-system]

The CDP debugger is easily detectable client side and many websites will flag your traffic as undesirable

[Imustaskforhelp]

I didn't know that, Sorry about that, but is there no way to make CDP debugger less detectable. Seems doable to me but maybe there's a catch if its not already done by somebody maybe?

[teaearlgraycold]

iMessage is the only explanation I can find. Minis aren’t powerful enough for agentic models unless you’re getting a rather expensive version (I could see the MX Pro w/ 64GB working). At which point they don’t have the price appeal of the base model anymore.

[andai]

Yeah on the discord you see a lot of people asking about how much RAM they need to run local models. There seems to be a lot of demand for it.

[root_axis]

I am not convinced there are that many people actually buying macs for OpenClaw.

[nickthegreek]

i just walked into a microcenter yesterday where not only did they have a huge stock of mac mini, they are all advertised 15% off and runs openclaw.

[bombcar]

https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?fq=ca... it's even mentioned on each one online