M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

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• ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Optional $200 dock with satisfyingly clicky lever mechanism that is activated from the front.

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is apple we’re talking about. So it’ll be $500 and called the iDock and the fans will call it innovation.

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• jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just run it upside down.

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or 3D print a stand to keep it sideways.

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    • jaschen@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Or not buy it

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• nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This could be a nice little computer if it had good linux support

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  • yojimbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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    • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is peak nerd rage over something nobody is going to actually care about.

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  • rippersnapper@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Imagine a scenario where a bunch of these are used as a server and to power cycle all of them need to turned off.

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ve certainly got to have an imagination. Thinking apple is designing a Mac mini for that niche use case and all 12 customers there.

      There are few companies in the world who garnish this much attention on nitpicky and inconsequential nerd shit while completely ignoring them designing some absurdly efficient ARM processors on the planet and printing money.

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• kevlar21@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like you can push the button without lifting the tiny computer.

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That would depend heavily on how accessible the computer is and how fat your fingers are. And I can tell you, mine are pretty fat.

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    • PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We need dimensions from raised bit to not raised bit dammit

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  • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I also at first thought it’s not that bad, because it looks like the main part of the computer is “hovering”, because it stands on that round portion. But then I saw that the button is on the backside! Why? That way you have to reach around everything, making it impossible to fit the thing into some smaller space and still use it. If it was on the bottom but in the front you would still have your beloved button-less design but the button would still be pretty accessible.

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• xonigo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess you could flip it around and make the bottom the top 🙃

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  • nonailsleft@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re thinking of a powerbottom, but that’s a totally different concept

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Might make the thermal dissipation stop working properly

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As long as no vents are blocked, should work fine. Anything with a fan is orientation agnostic.

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• qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly as infrequently as I turn my machines off this really doesn’t bother me. The mouse on the other hand….

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    • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, fuck that mouse, there’s no excuse for that one.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “different” is just another word for “weird”

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• thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is fake right

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, seems to be real.

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  • mausy5043@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, must be The Onion or smth

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• TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up

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• simonced@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is more like a “power button” in that case lol

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A power bottom?

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah too big

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    • simonced@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, I didn’t notice auto correct killed my pun! OK, you get the point 😀

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t a flatter form factor be better for rear mounting?

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• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh no, I’ll have to slightly lift a tiny box on my desk several times a year!

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• gianni@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless your computer has issues, can’t you just power off from within macOS?

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  • DrFuggles@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And then how do you turn it back on?

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• gibdos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well at least now you can actually see the damn black ports on the silver chassis. The M2 Mac Mini has the black ports on the black backside and it’s such a pain in the ass trying to find the USB C ports when I have to connect something.

  But yeah, putting the power button on the bottom is peak Apple stupidity.

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• Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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• DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least they didn’t put the fucking power port on the bottom.

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s stupid. Do you need any other reason to laugh at it?

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is it really that stupid though. And is it any worse than flush with the back of the computer so you can never tell if you’ve hit it until you’ve really pressed the button or it bongs?

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On the bottom, in the back…

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• Artopal@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How is this newsworthy… smh

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• atempuser23@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 feature design choice makes that not possible. It’s on purpose.

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• emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really hope this is one of those tactile hit it from the top and it’ll trigger from the bottom designs. But more likely they just never expect you to use it.

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately “punish them by not buying it” won’t work for someone as big as them.

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• trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hahaha I thought this was the onion and the button was the big fugly thing that covers the whole bottom

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