This is ridiclous
Hahaha I thought this was the onion and the button was the big fugly thing that covers the whole bottom
Optional $200 dock with satisfyingly clicky lever mechanism that is activated from the front.
Looking forward to see the 3D prints made to fix this “feature”.
Can you just flip it over and leave it upside down? Cause I certainly would.
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?
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.
How is this newsworthy… smh
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 do a net install on two this week in our lab.
Just run it upside down.
Or 3D print a stand to keep it sideways.
Or not buy it
Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow
Trust us. We’re THE design company!
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!
And lets stick an ARM chip with no raytracing on it, because thats what people crave
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.
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.
It’s for your safety.
That new surface is very risky, and if you don’t use the right connector it might catch the whole mini on fire!
Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.
Imagine! a computer that you can’t use while it’s plugged in.
I think they call that Windows.
