This is ridiclous
They clearly want you to let this one running 24/7, or, can you turn it on using the keyboard and that low power BT thing?
M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location
Submitted 1 year ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That would be no problem, unless your electricity is unreliable and you don’t have a UPS. I rarely use the power button on any of my PCs or Macs, except the one old PC that can’t do S3 sleep anymore (crashes on wake).
Are y’all not using sleep mode? Also the Apple M-cpus are extremely power efficient so leaving it on without sleep mode is a perfectly fine option too.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Power efficient if all your software agrees with it. I use an M3 at work and it dies in a couple hours during sleep.
s0ix is the same shit show on all three major platforms
Artopal@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
How is this newsworthy… smh
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For shitty reasons. You have to sniff a lot of your own farts to think putting it there is a good idea. Its like they don’t think their crap crashes. I just had to to a net install on two this week in our lab.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Optional $200 dock with satisfyingly clicky lever mechanism that is activated from the front.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
This is apple we’re talking about. So it’ll be $500 and called the iDock and the fans will call it innovation.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Introducing the new Apple Power Bottom.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nice pfp
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
atempuser23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a bit of a bummer given the power of the machine it would be otherwise good in IT environments. The small size would allow a rack or stack of them. This one
featuredesign choice makes that not possible. It’s on purpose.Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 year ago
As long as your default mode is sleep it’d be ok. I touch my PCs power button only when it crashes so horribly that a forced shutdown is the only way out…
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is fake right
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No, seems to be real.
mausy5043@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, must be The Onion or smth
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Looking forward to see the 3D prints made to fix this “feature”.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 year ago
A 3d printed dock with a nub underneath, so you just push the whole thing down and it hits the button.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go on facebook/craigslist etc, go get some free pianos.
Use key / hammer assembly to fit into custom dock.
Sell on etsy
Profit?!
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Just run it upside down.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or 3D print a stand to keep it sideways.
jaschen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Or not buy it
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 year ago
At least it does mean your cat can never turn off your pc ever again with this
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I just stuck a Belgium post WW2 MP helmet on mine, pretty effective at keeping my power button safe. Just like how judging frok the dent it kept some Belgian from getting their head caved in by a beer bottle.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Computer so tiny cat knocks it off the desk instead
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up
simonced@lemmy.one 1 year ago
This is more like a “power button” in that case lol
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A power bottom?
simonced@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Damn, I didn’t notice auto correct killed my pun! OK, you get the point 😀
And009@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Ah too big
auzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow
uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Trust us. We’re THE design company!
auzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah… I used to sell Apple gear.
When Apple announced the Mighty mouse 20 years ago, everyone was super excited. There wasn’t much info, and we were almost wondering if it was a touch sensitive button on it.
What we got though was a mouse which gave you RSI any time you clicked the right button.
Now, I have a Mac Studio. Every PC has the power button on the top or front. This guy? Nah, lets put it on the back! And the M2 is a professional machine, so lets ship with 8GB ram only… And MAKE IT SHARED VIDEO MEMORY!
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it opens up a whole new surface for things. Soon there will be a dozen USB C ports on the bottom and you’ll need to buy special apple right angle cables to access them that they charge $30 per 1m cable.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
The have active electronics in them so that if any non-apple right angle connectors are used it limits them to usb 1.0 speeds and 5v 0.5A power delivery. It’s for your safety.
aimizo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh an Apple thread. More people angry at something they were never going to buy anyway.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I’m not angry. I’m just confused.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
if it didn’t make us angry, and INFLUENCE OTHER BUSINESSES TO DO THE SAME REPUGNANT SHIT, we’d be buying it.
horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I thought it was satire at first, because the magic mouse has a charging port on the bottom making it unusable when charging
Turns out its not 🤡
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yeah, I used one of those and it made no sense. My Logitech MX Master has it on the front and works perfectly with my work Mac. Sometimes obvious design choices should be followed…
stardust@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I guess I’ll be the exception as someone who does have a macmini because it is the best priced mini pc that can’t be beat, and will likely get the base model for this too for the same reason.
But I still would prefer a power button in the front.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Gotta get the Apple haters to be their #1 advertisers for free.
Keep it up people. Apple did almost nothing to advertise this computer. You’re the advertisement.
foofy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
smh Apple playing 5th dimensional chess again making stupid design decisions to get the all important lemmy advertising for free.
Tim apple is truly a genius
simonced@lemmy.one 1 year ago
More like laughing at what they were not going to buy anyway.
stardust@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Excuse me. Some of us do but Apple products. And there’s nothing that comes close to the bargain price of the base model, so we laugh at it while buying it too.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
I’m still laughing at the mouse you can’t use while it’s charging
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
At least they didn’t put the fucking power port on the bottom.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Assuming you mount it on the back of something that would probably be a pretty good place.
I use a lot of mini Linux computers and mount them to the back of monitors. I could see this design being perfect for that except it’s way more expensive lol
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Wouldn’t a flatter form factor be better for rear mounting?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
[deleted]FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is the epitome of a first-world problem.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Imagine! a computer that you can’t use while it’s plugged in.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think they call that Windows.
cmrn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored
gianni@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Unless your computer has issues, can’t you just power off from within macOS?
DrFuggles@feddit.org 1 year ago
And then how do you turn it back on?
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How often do you need to actually turn it on? Won’t it sleep? Pretty much should only need to turn it on after moving the thing. You can restart from with in the OS if you need to.
nao@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This could be a nice little computer if it had good linux support
yojimbo@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Asahi linux. AFAIK Linus Tovalds still uses Macs - he has done so at least since the Intel era. I am co nsidering buying one as first a sort of low power gaming console (on MacOs) and eventually as an efficient yet powerfull home server…
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it’ll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 year ago
What is the
<–>port for? HTML? I thought that was port 80 or 443…Emerald@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Html doesn’t use any port, that’s HTTP
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I only program in HTTPS
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 year ago
It’s a joke, note the conflation of port (physical connector) and port (one of 65536 virtual pathways for applications). Also, HTTP(S) (port 80 or 443 by default) is literally “Hypertext Transfer Protocol” so it’s fair to say it was designed to carry HTML.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s an Ethernet port. For some reason Apple decided
<···>is the glyph to use for that.captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just put it on its side.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The electrons would flow in the wrong direction.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
To be fair, aren’t those mini PCs meant for HTPCs/home servers? You’re not really supposed to turn them off, and if you really want easy power button access you can just set it upside down. I’d say it’s a good idea if you take into account that it’s aimed at Apple customers who care more about “design” over usability. They truly “think different” over there.
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly as infrequently as I turn my machines off this really doesn’t bother me. The mouse on the other hand….
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Yeah, fuck that mouse, there’s no excuse for that one.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Here we go again making mountains out of mole hills for Apple.
I am all for calling out Apple for their treatment of workers in ASIA, or their wealth, heck even the closed garden, but this… nah fam I don’t care where the button is.
Muffi@programming.dev 1 year ago
Apple is powered by the copium of their fanbase, so maybe the next model won’t even need a power cable.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh no, I’ll have to slightly lift a tiny box on my desk several times a year!
kamen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unfortunately “punish them by not buying it” won’t work for someone as big as them.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m not really trying to come to Apple’s defense here as they don’t need it, but everyone reacting as though this is as bad as or worse than the mouse charging port seems to be ignoring the fact that most computers nowadays don’t need to be manually turned off or on with any level of frequency. People will push this button like once or twice a month I imagine. I don’t see why that’s the end of the world.
trolololol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hahaha I thought this was the onion and the button was the big fugly thing that covers the whole bottom