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Mac Mini's are cool, and I appreciate that Apple has some of the most experienced and talented designers in the world... But they put the power switch on the bottom. You have to lift it up and turn it over to turn it on and off.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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Remember these are the same engineers who put the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, making the mouse unusable while you charge it
Honestly, the mouse charger screams marketing or management. Apple's brand is partially form over function.
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People treat it like a mistake but not be able to use the mouse while it’s plugged in is the entire point of the design. Right or wrong the Apple designers thought a cord drag was a bad experience and designed to prevent it.
They probably looked at their target audience and realized there was a certain percentage of folks that would just leave the mouse on the cord 24/7 and wanted to prevent that.
They also know their target audience has plenty of people who gobble up every bad design decision and even defend it online years later.
I don't understand why this is so hard to understand. You're supposed to stop using the mouse while it is charging, and use the mouse unplugged. That's the purpose. It's not a stupid decision, it just prevents some user's preferred operation of using the mouse while it is charging
"it prevents some users' preferred operation of using the mouse while its charging"
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"It's not a stupid decision"
It’s not a stupid decision, but a stubborn one.
I’m 100% OK with that; Apple is heavy on design aesthetics. If a user doesn’t like that, they can just use their own preferred mouse - wired or otherwise.
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I used to buy Macs when I was a teenager and young adult, but finally grew tired of the "my way or the highway" approach to design.
Windows is guilty of this too, but it's more subtle, but getting worse all the time with w11.
Linux has more of a "you break it, you buy it" approach to design lol
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People treat it like a mistake, but the Emperor has no clothes and people are catching on.
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What.
The fuck.
In case it wasn't a joke, I imagine it would be high enough for your finger to just poke under it to push the button, like you would a monitor with buttons on the bottom of the screen.
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The new design seems more lifted, I think it should be fine to fit your finger below there without having to lift it up yourself. At least for most people.
Power Bottom
But once its on why would you ever turn it off? /s
This but non-sarcastically. I have a Mac mini and I don’t think I’ve ever touched the power button (except after plugging in of course, but then you’re already fiddling)
I bought my iMac in March 2020... since then it's been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.
It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻♂️
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The previous model has it in the back, you can’t even feel it properly because it’s not recessed.
On the other hand the last time I turned off my M1 mini was when we moved. It’s 100% silent and takes less power than a lightbulb when it sleeps, so why would I bother powering it off.
So while it sleeps, it still wastes electricity on literally nothing. Gotcha
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But WHY??
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Most, if not all, Apple devices look almost exactly the same as their sibling devices.
Well, it would be
- more confusing if they shaped it like an iPhone,
- more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom,
- super cute if they kept the exact mac pro tower design but super smol,
- actually useful as a vase of they used that cylinder mac pro design from 10 years ago
That cilinder Mac Pro was a fever dream but I still love the design
more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom
Sounds like someone didn't wear their Brave pants today
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Implying Mac Minis haven't looked like Apple TVs from the beginning?
Mac Mini (2005-2009):
Apple TV (1^st^ gen, 2007):
Mac Mini (2010, first redesign after Apple TV came out):
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It's kinda cute
That doesn’t seem very good for the price.
When... have their products ever been competitive on price? Not even shitting on them, but there's always been an Apple tax.
Honestly, now that they put in a reasonable amount of RAM, with a processor that strong and some external storage, 600USD isn’t that terrible of a price.
I’d need to see what comparable x86 processors and graphics are to the M4, but yeah, this seems like it could be one of the first Macs in a while to be really competitive on price. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Fifteen years ago, a couple years after Macintosh went to Intel, I bought a Mac Pro. I had a hard time comparing prices at first, but once I finally realized I needed to be looking at workstations instead of desktops the Mac Pro actually came out to be about $300 less than identically spec’d workstations from Dell and HP. That was about the price of a full retail license on Windows Vista Ultimate (or later Windows 7 Ultimate). With Boot Camp and feeling like I could find Windows on sale for less it actually seemed to make the most sense with the added benefit of access to both Windows and OS X. It was frankly the best Windows machine I’ve ever used. No bloat, and all the drivers worked.
They've often been on par with competitors tbh.
The X1 Carbon isn't much cheaper than a Macbook Air and ditto for Dell XPS vs Macbook Pro. The Macs have better build quality usually, but the PCs would get better specs. RAM, at least.
The Galaxy S series stars in the same range as iPhones do, though you get a better screen. But in the Ultra and Pro Max versions the screens trade blows and the iPhone is apparently cheaper.
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Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.
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M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.
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I mean.. It looks like the other Mac minis so... Okay.
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