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Comment by lanakei

23 days ago

Probably the Mac Mini. A few OpenClaw users are buying the agent a dedicated device so that it can integrate with their Apple account.

For example: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668.

Why would it need more than 1? Couldn't they do this with any Mac with an Apple account?

  • It appears he is selling a service where he comes to you (optionally with a Mac Mini which is probably why he's buying multiple) and sets up OpenClaw for you.

  • Considering there are 1.5M openclaw agents, created by 17,000 humans, it seems like some people really would use more than 1.

    • Are you saying that software is THAT inefficient so that you can’t run a few hundred of them on a single Mac Mini? : D

  • There are few open source projects coming along that let you sell your compute power in a decentralized way. I don't know how genuine some of these are [0] but it could be the reason: people are just trying to make money.

    0. https://www.daifi.ai/

    • There have been countless projects to sell distributed compute power. I don't know of any that have gotten much traction. Everyone keeps trying to create new ones instead of developing for the existing ones.

      The one you linked to looks clearly like a pump-and-dump scam, though.