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I keep seeing posts about OpenClaw (I still didn’t try it myself) but I don’t get the constant references to the Mac Minis.

Why are people needing the Mac Minis? Isn’t OpenClaw supposed to run locally in your laptop?

And if it actually should run as a service, why a MacMini and not some docker on the local NAS for instance?

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You need to run it on MacOS if you want it to interact with iMessages and such. And people are likely not proficient enough to set up and connect everything without GUI.

Oh, so, it's just a way to have it parse iMessages when the laptop is off, basically? (I'm trying to think of special mac only services that the AI bot will check, but I can only come up with iMessages).

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