How I AI · Monday, July 13, 2026
Alex Finn suggests that even older computers like Mac Minis and laptops can still be utilized for AI tasks, such as managing memory for agents or parallelizing cloud work. He points to tools like Codex as being effective for managing these smaller tasks on less powerful hardware.
“And then you have everything else. The Mac Minis, your old laptops. You can still run local models on them.”
“So, you know, you can still put them to work in terms of parallelizing your your cloud work across cross computers.”
“So I actually like running it locally like on the Mac Mini as opposed to cloud because you can have it actually click through and do things and then like send you screenshots of what it's doing.”