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  • HailVictory1776 : I've maybe had to touch the power switch of my Mac mini maybe twice in 3 years

Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/10/29/apple-stuck-the-mac-mini-power-button-on-the-bottom

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Don't expect to fit the new M4 Mac mini into too tight a space because you're going to have to tip it to reach underneath every time you need to switch it on.

If the position of the charging port on the Magic Mouse isn't the questionable design choice it's been called, the New Mac mini power button might be. As pointedly not shown by Apple in its launch video or new ad — the Mac mini power button is underneath the device.

As can be seen on the online store's page for the new M4 Mac mini, the button is not on the very base of the model. It is, though, underneath it, raised off the ground only by the cooling vent.

Another banger design choice from Steve Tim Apple :marseyclapping:


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I forgot where my power button was on my Mac Studio because I've used it like once !applechads

Windows users are so used to their computers crashing they need to have the power button close by :marseysmug2:

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The lengths apple will go to make r-slurred design decisions

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I read about this, apparently the charging port is deliberately at the bottom so that you don't keep it plugged in always. It was a deliberately aesthetic choice because they couldn't let people see their wireless mouse could work plugged in and always used wirelessly

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ergonomic nightmare

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It looks like my hand would start cramping in hours.

I need a big fat hog of a mouse. My hands are used to big fat hogs.


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I don't know anyone who uses Apple computers that uses Apple peripherals. The apple peripherals only exist for fan boys and people with more money than sense


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I love the trackpad for gestures.

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Yeah, gotta agree with you, I forgot about their massive track pads. Those are nice


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Must not know many (web) developers.

Probably poor.

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My developer friends are all about the trac balls and mechanical keyboards :marseyshrug:


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Java Developers...

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There are still Java developers?


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Sweaty the financial sector has been desperatly trying to recruit COBOL developers for the last 15 years.

Yes.

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:#marseytunaktunak:

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zoz

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zle

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zozzle

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oh yeah, its a horrible mouse regardless of the charging port

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Could they not have sold an expensive as frick mouse pad that did wireless inductive charging? 1000 maybe 2000 easy peasy

!commenters

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Then no one would have bitched about it and they would have lost out on millions in free advertising.


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That thing is a crime against humanity in almost every aspect

Try scrolling with one (you can't, for any realistic definition of scroll)

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Why would you ever turn it off?

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To be fair, if you stick that thing into a cramped place, it will probably overheat and fry itself after 1h of usage.

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I don't really get the argument about the cramped space either, I think old Mac minis had the power button on the back, so you'd have to pull it out of that cramped space to turn it on/off too.

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Why would you ever turn the computer off?

:marseyhal9000:

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To be fair, if you stick that thing into a cramped place, it will probably overheat and fry itself after 1h of usage.

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So revolutionary. So brave.

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I feel like they do random stuff just so they can call themselves "innovative" :marseyitsallsotiresome:

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They do shit like this as a way of prescribing how you should use their products because they're fricking pretentious. It is the hardware equivalent of a dark pattern.

They want the user to stop regularly powering the device off, likely because they think that isn't the "correct" way to use a Mac. It's still necessary to have one just in case, so they put it somewhere inconvenient.

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they do stuff like this to jam as much as possible into a smaller box.

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That's 80% of big tech / startups nowadays

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Looks cool, I got a Mac mini 3-4 years ago during the pandemic, it's pretty sweet honestly. I can play eu4 on it so :marseyshrug:

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Why do people still buy mac shit? My android phone lets me pirate so much software.

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Just flip it upside down?? The vent will even cool easier that way. Why are apple users so stupid lmao

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Then the heat will fall to the bottom, stupid


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HEAT RISES

YOU TROGLODYTE

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NOT IF THE COMPUTER IS UPSIDE DOWN


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IF YOU FLIP OVER THE POWER BRICK THE FAN AND BUTTON WILL BE ON TOP!

this is just the dock/hub and not the whole computer, right?

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More accurately, this is just an external PCMCIA bus


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Yeah it should be easy to flip right?

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Not when you turn in upside down cute twink

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I've used the power button on my macbook literally one time.

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Meh. I'd drill a hole in the front case and run some wire to the button

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Why not just put it upside down

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Because then I wouldn't get to drill

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:#chudgrug:

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The way they pack shit id be careful

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