This is ridiclous
Introducing the new Apple Power Bottom.
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”.
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?
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
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!
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
This is fake right
At least it does mean your cat can never turn off your pc ever again with this
Computer so tiny cat knocks it off the desk instead
I just stuck a Belgium post WW2 MP helmet on mine, pretty effective at keeping my power button safe. Just like how judging frok the dent it kept some Belgian from getting their head caved in by a beer bottle.
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…
Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored
Asahi Linux 👀
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Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up
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…
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 can get an I9 32gb 1Tb mini pc for under 500€. Where is the bargain?
Which one is it.
I’m not angry. I’m just confused.
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
Don’t worry, there will be suitable USB accessories available for this.
Just like a Raspberry Pi needs a dongle for a power button, except the Mini has one already.
Only $299!
“that’s insane!”
gets wallet out
“I can’t believe this!”
gets out card
“unbelievable!”
And a $199 stand for it, sold separately.
The generic Chinese version that does the same thing: $12
No, it’ll be paired to specifically to your computer and doesn’t work on anyone else’s computer.
It’s going to Bluetooth since the Chinese version does not want to pay for the licensing fees.
Does macOS respond to external keyboard power button presses because if so this could very well be as easy money-making real product
Just be thankful they didn’t put the power cord there like they did with the mouse.
