Thinking of Buying a Mac Mini M4 to Cut Agen Cost. Worth It?

I’m currently running my OpenClaw setup with Claude Code, but it’s consuming a lot of tokens, and I can’t afford to use it for daily tasks.

For coding, I have Gemini AI Pro, but recently I’ve been avoiding using AI for coding work because I feel like it’s eroding my thinking and problem-solving skills.

I need to cut down the cost of running OpenClaw, so I’m planning to buy a second Mac mini M4 with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD for around $400.

What are your thoughts?