Is the AI Assistant Causing Mac Mini Price Hike Truly That Powerful?

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Recently, social media has been flooded with posts about a project called Clawdbot. The hype is so intense that it feels like I’ve been transported back to the afternoon when Gemini 3 Pro was just released.

It’s an open – source project on GitHub that has already amassed over thirty thousand stars, and the number is still growing.

In simple terms, its purpose is to allow an AI to control your computer to do anything through conversations.

Some people have used it to create a digital employee that monitors the market 24/7 and can place orders autonomously to make money, achieving fully automated trading around the clock.

Some claim that they used it to negotiate with dealers and managed to get a $4200 discount when buying a new car.

A foreign tech blogger is even more obsessed. He said that he consumed 180 million Tokens with Clawdbot in a week. His final conclusion was: After experiencing this superpower, I can never go back.

Wow, isn’t this just like Jarvis in Iron Man? I can just sit on the chair and give commands, and the computer will do all the work for me. Could it be that the future has really arrived…

Since it runs well on Mac mini with low power consumption and small size, the price of Mac mini has even gone up.

So, I dug out the old Mac in our editorial department and spent an afternoon installing this thing.

After using it for an afternoon, both I and the computer were on the verge of overheating. Let me give a conclusion first: It is indeed useful, but some people may have over – hyped it.

Before talking about my experience, let me give a brief introduction to why this thing has become so popular for those who are not familiar with it.

To put it simply, Clawdbot is different from chatbots like ChatGPT. It doesn’t just talk; it’s a real – working Agent.

It can operate your computer, read and write files, send emails, control the browser, and even open VS Code to write code for you and run tests on its own after writing.

Moreover, it supports…

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