This is ridiclous
Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored
Asahi Linux 👀
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Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.
excellent marketing strategy to get us talking about their stuff that would otherwise get almost completely under our radar.
i mean fuck where the power button of a product ill probably never need is.
Apple is powered by the copium of their fanbase, so maybe the next model won’t even need a power cable.
It’ll still NEED a power cable, it just won’t COME with one.
YOU won’t need one because you’ll already HAVE one from the last Mac Mini you bought last year.
Oh an Apple thread. More people angry at something they were never going to buy anyway.
More like laughing at what they were not going to buy anyway.
I’m still laughing at the mouse you can’t use while it’s charging
True innovation tho. There was no other mouse you couldn’t use while charging.
Excuse me. Some of us do buy 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.
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.
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.
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
They’ve used that exact same symbol since they first added an Ethernet port to their computers in the early 1990’s. It was one of the first mass-market computers with integrated Ethernet. It literally defined the standard when there was no standards body for such a thing.
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.
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.
How do I know that’s not just a segment of a giant token ring
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 up.
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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.
Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow
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.
Trust us. We’re THE design company!
Just put it on its side.
Warranty voided.
Steve Jobs roided
This could be a nice little computer if it had good linux support
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…
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
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
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.
“different” is just another word for “weird”
ThInK DiFfErEnT
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.
At least they didn’t put the fucking power port on the bottom.
Unless your computer has issues, can’t you just power off from within macOS?
And then how do you turn it back on?
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.
I don’t know if there is a version of Poe’s law for Apple fanboys, but your comment makes me think there should be.
I don’t know if there is a version of Poe’s law for Apple fanboys, but your comment makes me think there should be.
Roflmao
I don’t own a Mac Mini, and never will. I’m not trying to defend Apple.
But I’ll use my work laptop as an example. I have external monitors, so I never open the damn thing except on the rare occasions I need to use the power button. This happens infrequently enough that it gives me a pretty good notion of how often people need the actual power button on a modern computer.
If the button can be reached without turning over the device or even picking it up, as it sure appears, what’s the problem? Other than that it’s an Apple device and people love to hate on Apple devices.
I turn my desktop off every single day, so I need the power button daily, I turn my work laptop off weekly.
those should be reversed
There’s no reason to turn off a Mac Mini. It uses about a watt of power in sleep. The idle draw from the power supply in your desktop probably uses more power than the Mac Mini in sleep.
Yeah i dunno. Magic mouse? Poor ass design. This? You might have to tilt it up a centimeter or two to hit the power button.
I have a M1 Mac Mini… power button in the rear. I dont turn it off. It shares a screen with an internal KVM with a Windows PC…that also never gets turned off.
My work laptop is more of a PITA since that does get shut down and I need to pull it out of the stand i have it resting in to open the lid most the way to turn it back on if I swap the USB C cable from the Mini. Not the case when docked at work since the dock has a power button on it.
My home laptop has an uptime of almost 30 days at this point, who needs a power button?
it’s a shitty design? From a company worth over 3 trillion, that gives them extra shitty points.
This is more like a “power button” in that case lol
A power bottom?
Ah too big
Oh no, I’ll have to slightly lift a tiny box on my desk several times a year!
