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Hands-On Photos and Videos of the Much Smaller Mac Mini and More

Quite amazing that the most talked about feature is the power button at the bottom, yet The Verge failed to post a photo of it.
 
mctrials23 said:
So what you're saying is that it wastes absolutely no power and that if you want to turn it off you still can really easily but you're really annoyed by it. If you want to offset that usage, perhaps turn a light bulb off when you leave a room or any one of a million other things that would save more power. Or, you know, turn it off using the power button that isn't that hard to access.
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The point is apple shouldn’t discourage it by the sake of design.
 
sfpete said:
We commonly deploy the Mac Mini in conference rooms. It's just thin enough to be able to hide behind a wall-mounted flat panel TV. I'm worried that the new M4 mini isn't going to permit that anymore... it's much higher.
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'much higher' only relative to the old Mini. ( about 40% more). But really only talking about 0.6 in ( 1.4 cm). If the objective is to fit the TV as flush as possible against the wall , there was already a conflict. It is worse now. But if it barely fit before even 1.7" (+ 0.3" ) wouldn't have worked either. All of the mounting solutions that were 100% set to the classic mini dimensions aren't going to work.


The quirky power button may or may not be reachable depending upon how you mount may be just as big of a problematical issue.

The almost co-located input and output vents are too. ( If mounted with hot iar vented down more higher likelihood going to re-ingest it. ) [ The 'magical cooling with no visible vents' vibe was taken from the AppleTV more so than the Mac Studio No immediately visible power button aspect also. ]
 
Manzanito said:
The point is apple shouldn’t discourage it by the sake of design.
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Mount it sideways if a big issue (pretty likely multiple vendors will build a 'vertical stand' for this. Also more likely stable enough by itself. ). The odd-ball design puts the RF antennas on the 'bottom' of the device also. Those facing into a desk surface usually isn't 'helping' either.
 
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deconstruct60 said:
Mount it sideways if a big issue (pretty likely multiple vendors will build a 'vertical stand' for this. Also more likely stable enough by itself. ). The odd-ball design puts the RF antennas on the 'bottom' of the device also. Those facing into a desk surface usually isn't 'helping' either.
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Hardly an issue, just an observation.
 
Makes me wonder if Apple decided to make the mini smaller so it doesn’t look like the studio, even though the studio is taller. Is the new mini as tall as the studio? The studio will stick around for those who don’t want a tower but still good power. Am just waiting for someone to do a stress test with the pro (mentioned that earlier) to see if it will throttle it. I don’t need the power of the studio. But if the studio with the M4 pro is close in price to the mini with the pro version, may get the studio instead. Hard decisions ahead for sure.
 
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