This is ridiclous
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It looks like you can push the button without lifting the tiny computer.
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.
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.
We need dimensions from raised bit to not raised bit dammit
After seeing the mouse with ports on the bottom. I’m convinced that there’s a disgruntled designer on their team and this is a cry for help.
I guess you could flip it around and make the bottom the top 🙃
You’re thinking of a powerbottom, but that’s a totally different concept
Might make the thermal dissipation stop working properly
As long as no vents are blocked, should work fine. Anything with a fan is orientation agnostic.
I thought Apple did away with fans years ago
Hahaha I thought this was the onion and the button was the big fugly thing that covers the whole bottom
Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored
Asahi Linux 👀
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Unfortunately “punish them by not buying it” won’t work for someone as big as them.
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.
Honestly as infrequently as I turn my machines off this really doesn’t bother me. The mouse on the other hand….
Yeah, fuck that mouse, there’s no excuse for that one.
“different” is just another word for “weird”
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Just put it on its side.
Warranty voided.
Steve Jobs roided
Tried to order pizza but it got Noided
The electrons would flow in the wrong direction.
What is the
<-->port for? HTML? I thought that was port 80 or 443…It’s an Ethernet port. For some reason Apple decided
<···>is the glyph to use for that.I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols
Is there a standardized symbol for Ethernet? The only one on the Wikipedia page for Ethernet is Apple’s.
https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/137839/ethernet-connector.png
Is the one I’ve always seen for ages.
Is it standardized?
And honestly, it depicts a modern Ethernet network worse than the Apple icon does
Literally ISO
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iec:grs:60417:5988And yes, we use switches but the lower network layers abstract that away and a LAN is still like a single bus on the network layer and higher.
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How do I know that’s not just a segment of a giant token ring
They’ve used that exact same symbol since they first added an Ethernet port to their computers in the early 1990’s. What are you even bitching about.
They’ve used the same symbol since before we standardized on the RJ45 connector, or 10baseT. Back when ethernet was the wild west.
God I miss these abortions. The OG dongles.
Back when men were men, and ethernet cables were an inch thick and needed heavy equipment to use.
Do you mean abominations? lol.
No, we miss abortions in this neighborhood, brother.
Html doesn’t use any port, that’s HTTP
I only program in HTTPS
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.
Please don’t ever turn your computer off, it makes it really hard to spy on you. Thanks -Apple
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?
At least they didn’t put the fucking power port on the bottom.
Apparently there is a button on the keyboard, so you get to buy an Apple keyboard (I guess that is bundled?) and don’t get to use your own keyboard with it.
Doesn’t look like it, or at least, they’ve not included one before (you just got a power cord), so it’s doubtful they would start including one now. Either that, or they’re about to release a power-button/TouchID dongle specifically to use as a separate power switch.
We went full circle.
Like a Windows key?
You can use your own keyboard with it
Why am I buying a machine that small if I need to make space for two separate keyboards? I can just buy a different thing instead.
Sounds like you should buy a different thing. I bought one, though. None of this keyboard stuff matters to me, since I won’t even be using a keyboard with it
Sure, but my keyboard doesn’t have a power button.
How often do you use the power button to turn on your computer? These days I might use it once a year, at most!
Literally every single time I use it. I only need it to be on when I’m using it, and I don’t use it every day.
Why? This isn’t 1998 anymore.
Well unless you have my shitty ass Thinkpad that can’t reliably go into S0 standby to save it’s life.
How often do you use it, if not every day? Once a week? Once a month?
I use my laptop every day so it makes sense that I don’t use the power button even though it’s right there. I also have a raspberry pi set up to run Retropie that I only turn on once or twice a year when I have an old friend in from out of town. In that case I use the power button every single time but I don’t mind that it’s kind of finicky (I have to turn on several other devices with it as well as a power strip to power them all) because I don’t use it that often.
I could see the new Mac Mini being a bit annoying with its bottom side power button if you’re using it every other day. But honestly I would be more annoyed at the boot time taking 30s than the 2s it takes to reach under the case and power it up. If I had one I would probably just get the keyboard with built in power button and finger print reader though. I use the finger print reader on my laptop all the time because it unlocks my password manager.
Oh, I had one of theses keyboards!
Pushing the snooze button insta crashed the PC.
Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up
