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Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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.

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Strykker@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I turn my desktop off every single day, so I need the power button daily, I turn my work laptop off weekly.

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- fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨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.
  
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- TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  those should be reversed
  
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RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My home laptop has an uptime of almost 30 days at this point, who needs a power button?

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Kadaj21@lemmy.world ⁨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 woth an internal KVM withba 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.

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Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
it’s a shitty design? From a company worth over 3 trillion, that gives them extra shitty points.

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