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M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't know if there is a version of Poe's law for Apple fanboys, but your comment makes me think there should be.

Roflmao

I don’t own a Mac Mini, and never will. I’m not trying to defend Apple.

But I’ll use my work laptop as an example. I have external monitors, so I never open the damn thing except on the rare occasions I need to use the power button. This happens infrequently enough that it gives me a pretty good notion of how often people need the actual power button on a modern computer.

If the button can be reached without turning over the device or even picking it up, as it sure appears, what’s the problem? Other than that it’s an Apple device and people love to hate on Apple devices.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I turn my desktop off every single day, so I need the power button daily, I turn my work laptop off weekly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

There's no reason to turn off a Mac Mini. It uses about a watt of power in sleep. The idle draw from the power supply in your desktop probably uses more power than the Mac Mini in sleep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

those should be reversed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

My home laptop has an uptime of almost 30 days at this point, who needs a power button?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah i dunno. Magic mouse? Poor ass design. This? You might have to tilt it up a centimeter or two to hit the power button.

I have a M1 Mac Mini… power button in the rear. I dont turn it off. It shares a screen with an internal KVM with a Windows PC…that also never gets turned off.

My work laptop is more of a PITA since that does get shut down and I need to pull it out of the stand i have it resting in to open the lid most the way to turn it back on if I swap the USB C cable from the Mini. Not the case when docked at work since the dock has a power button on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

it's a shitty design? From a company worth over 3 trillion, that gives them extra shitty points.