Skip the $3,000 Mac mini: a $1,000 renewed Dell mini PC with 64GB RAM runs your agents
LumaoDoggie · x · 2026-11-15
For anyone struggling with RAM for AI agents: instead of a $3,000 64GB M5 Mac mini (most people won't run local models anyway), a renewed Dell 7010 Micro (i5-13400T, 64GB, 960GB SSD) costs about $1,000 — slightly bigger, super quiet, and you can buy three for the price of one Mac mini. A commenter adds that for demanding work, AWS spot instances in the Stockholm region (32 cores, 64GB) rent for just $0.15/hour.
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