Why “Macs” is being discussed
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I personally know 5 people using Macs with their unified memory for OpenClaw / Hermes. Also the demand is really there. Or do you think Apple just removed certain options f…
by apexalpha · Sep 1, 2026
> They honestly don’t need to, because they’re making an avalanche of cash from the iPhone. Why would they produce "low-end, low-margin Macs" then?
by conradfr · Sep 1, 2026
I was buying my own Mac specifically for LLMs around this same time, didn't care about OpenClaw, but people I knew IRL were immediately asking me about buying a Mac for OpenClaw…
by giancarlostoro · Sep 1, 2026
The sad thing is that current Macs are perfect machines for DF. The recommendation was always to get as fast a single threaded machine as possible with the biggest cache. Even t…
by musictubes · Sep 1, 2026
People really have a twisted idea about how corporate America works. Apple does not have a psyops division cooking up ever more elaborate ways to seed demand for low-end, low-ma…
by bensyverson · Sep 1, 2026
Very neat. All I want for Christmas is Logic on Linux. But then you’d still need a Mac to legally download it from the App Store and DRM checks would probably only work on Macs
by 999900000999 · Sep 1, 2026
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