This is ridiclous
Hahaha I thought this was the onion and the button was the big fugly thing that covers the whole bottom
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?
How is this newsworthy… smh
Optional $200 dock with satisfyingly clicky lever mechanism that is activated from the front.
Introducing the new Apple Power Bottom.
It’s a bit of a bummer given the power of the machine it would be otherwise good in IT environments. The small size would allow a rack or stack of them. This one
featuredesign choice makes that not possible. It’s on purpose.As long as your default mode is sleep it’d be ok. I touch my PCs power button only when it crashes so horribly that a forced shutdown is the only way out…
This is fake right
Looking forward to see the 3D prints made to fix this “feature”.
Just run it upside down.
At least it does mean your cat can never turn off your pc ever again with this
Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up
This is more like a “power button” in that case lol
A power bottom?
Damn, I didn’t notice auto correct killed my pun! OK, you get the point 😀
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!
Oh an Apple thread. More people angry at something they were never going to buy anyway.
if it didn’t make us angry, and INFLUENCE OTHER BUSINESSES TO DO THE SAME REPUGNANT SHIT, we’d be buying it.
I thought it was satire at first, because the magic mouse has a charging port on the bottom making it unusable when charging
Turns out its not 🤡
Yeah, I used one of those and it made no sense. My Logitech MX Master has it on the front and works perfectly with my work Mac. Sometimes obvious design choices should be followed…
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.
smh Apple playing 5th dimensional chess again making stupid design decisions to get the all important lemmy advertising for free.
Tim apple is truly a genius
More like laughing at what they were not going to buy anyway.
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 can get an I9 32gb 1Tb mini pc for under 500€
The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1
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.
