Not if you have a power cut and have it set not to auto boot. Sometimes people don’t want a device to boot under such an event.
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M4 Mac Mini's Power Button Has New Bottom Location
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This is really stupid. I regularly turn off all my computers. The only one that stays on is my NAS because it records surveillance.
I don’t need an accidental bump of a keyboard key turning anything on for me so unless I really am using it in the near future, I shut it completely down. Not sure why a company that claims to want to reduce energy usage would want to make shutting down less convenient.
I don’t need an accidental bump of a keyboard key turning anything on for me so unless I really am using it in the near future, I shut it completely down. Not sure why a company that claims to want to reduce energy usage would want to make shutting down less convenient.
Eugh, I was looking forward to the new Mac Mini but I’m feeling a little let down.
The footprint is not the same as the Apple TV meaning I can’t throw it in a jacket pocket in a hurry and the placement of that button is on the same level of ergonomic genius that gave us the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom.
I would have been seriously tempted by something with the footprint of the Apple TV, even better if it had the option to be powered by USB-C meaning a single cable to my monitor.
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The footprint is not the same as the Apple TV meaning I can’t throw it in a jacket pocket in a hurry and the placement of that button is on the same level of ergonomic genius that gave us the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom.
I would have been seriously tempted by something with the footprint of the Apple TV, even better if it had the option to be powered by USB-C meaning a single cable to my monitor.
This isn’t it
I did have a panic attack but thankfully my power button was easy to access and I was switched off and back on again without being turned upside down. That would have made things much worse.
I'm convinced no matter what there will be people who find something to complain about or name a "gate" after. Here is "Power Button Gate" I guess
BFD. On my Mac Studio I’ve used the power button about 3 times in almost 2 years…
This machine is just begging to be mounted under your desk now.
We have an M1 iMac in the house and i don't think we've touched the power button once since the initial set up. We've restarted it on screen and done software updates... But don't recall ever having to turn it off using the button. People will get enraged about this for no reason lol.
I think it is a great place for the power button. Take that haters!
Yeah. I have to guess the majority of complaints are from people who never owned a Mac mini or Mac Studio.
I mean like, a desktop computer that has to be lifted up off the desk if you want to turn it on. I'm fresh out of facepalms. Better put an order in for another couple of hundred. Make that a thousand.
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Sigh. I don't love this power button location. In uses involving external hardware (like audio production), it's best to boot up to run various connection apps and scripts. That means powering up every time. In educational use this would be less than ideal IMO. Also, my Mac Studio wakes up all the time for no reason so I shut it down when not in use. If this did that, it would be annoying to fumble for the power button all the time.
Perhaps the "fan bulge" is tall enough to allow one to reach under and turn it on? No need to turn it over or tilt it 45+ degrees?
A desktop computer that can just be left in sleep mode endlessly when not in-use so you don't need to actually power it off or on very much at all. It also weighs virtually nothing. Lets not pretend its like lifting a tower off a desk.
That is not really true. While sleeping it uses around 13% of the power it uses when turned on in idle mode.
I'm not joking - isn't it kind of arbitrary to refer to this as the bottom? There's absolutely no reason you couldn't orient it any way you want - sitting with any of its narrow edges or the flat side ("top") as its bottom?
So... if you really want to have the button on the front or top or back or side instead of the bottom... just orient/mount yours differently?
Having said all that... it seems like it'd be more practical if they had put the button on a "front" corner instead of a "back" corner... looks like the air vent means the button isn't at an extreme extremity... so maybe it could be oriented as shown in Apple's marketing material and still have the button be accessible.
So... if you really want to have the button on the front or top or back or side instead of the bottom... just orient/mount yours differently?
Having said all that... it seems like it'd be more practical if they had put the button on a "front" corner instead of a "back" corner... looks like the air vent means the button isn't at an extreme extremity... so maybe it could be oriented as shown in Apple's marketing material and still have the button be accessible.
Yeah because it uses almost no power when idle also. Good try with the "gotcha" there though.
You just wasted more energy trying to prove me wrong than a Mac mini wastes in a week.
A career based on providing these tips... and nobody be offended when "somebody" saying that i users are not so smart... based on they tips they need it SEEMS true
I think this speaks to the intelligence level of the students or the teaching capability of the professors then.
No offense but this is ridiculous and now I see why tech support has to ask if the PC is on or not.
Even if this is not a big deal for most people, I really have to wonder who came up with that. Was there really no better solution than this? It's just so weird.
Well sure. Maybe...No. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The Babylon Bee would have paid good money for this idea. That sound you just heard is the monumental thud of every design engineer in the entire world simultaneously facepalming. Sorry but no one is talking their way out of this one. It's a meme.