[operatingthetan]

An 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.

[throwa356262]

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.

[hparadiz]

The shortage is for the 512, 256, and 128 models.

[ashdksnndck]

The basic 16GB Mac mini is also hard to buy. I bought one used not to save money but because I couldn’t find any store online with it in stock.

[reverius42]

Those are the ones that can run the LLMs. Not a coincidence.

[apexalpha]

When they say 'due to openclaw' they refer to running AI models that openclaw uses, not to openclaw itself.

[amelius]

People are running openclown on microcontrollers.