• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    Well, it would be

    • more confusing if they shaped it like an iPhone,
    • more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom,
    • super cute if they kept the exact mac pro tower design but super smol,
    • actually useful as a vase of they used that cylinder mac pro design from 10 years ago
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      more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom

      Sounds like someone didn’t wear their Brave pants today

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        • way sexier if they shaped it so it could wear tight little brave pants
          (and the ‘turn on’ button would have been covered by pants in this case as well, which sounds proper)
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    Mac Mini’s are cool, and I appreciate that Apple has some of the most experienced and talented designers in the world… But they put the power switch on the bottom. You have to lift it up and turn it over to turn it on and off.

    A Mac Mini underside, showing the power button placement.

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      Remember these are the same engineers who put the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, making the mouse unusable while you charge it

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        People treat it like a mistake but not be able to use the mouse while it’s plugged in is the entire point of the design. Right or wrong the Apple designers thought a cord drag was a bad experience and designed to prevent it.

        They probably looked at their target audience and realized there was a certain percentage of folks that would just leave the mouse on the cord 24/7 and wanted to prevent that.

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        Yeah and I hear they might bring that back lol. Why haven’t there been any wireless mice that use wireless charging? They could include a super thin coil that you could place under any mouse pad. It doesn’t even need to charge fast so heat shouldn’t be an issue. Just trickle charge when it’s not being used.

        Edit: guess I should have searched first. Of course it was Logitech

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        Honestly, the mouse charger screams marketing or management. Apple’s brand is partially form over function.

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          It was very likely a designers decision. It forces the use the use case they wanted; wireless mice should be used wirelessly. I would bet they fought marketing and management to get this on the final product.

          Marketing would want the mouse they can advertise as being useable with and wireless. Female ports are easier to mount and manufacture with they have depth to set the socket. So a plug on the front is much cheaper and easier to manufacture.

          The fact the charging cable doesn’t get used in motion means it will last longer and you wouldn’t have people useing fraying cables on the front of their mouse.

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            4 hours ago

            It’s better for display

            Users aren’t trying before they buy so the display is the most important aspect

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      In case it wasn’t a joke, I imagine it would be high enough for your finger to just poke under it to push the button, like you would a monitor with buttons on the bottom of the screen.

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        I bought my iMac in March 2020… since then it’s been powered down maybe half a dozen times (a couple of those were power cuts) and rebooted (outside of macOS updates) maybe ten times.

        It just sits there reliably doing its thing and sucks little juice in power saving so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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        Assuming the desktop takes the same power saving techniques from their laptops, there is no real reason to turn it off.

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      The new design seems more lifted, I think it should be fine to fit your finger below there without having to lift it up yourself. At least for most people.

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      The next 900$ monitor stand will attach the monitor at the bottom with the screen facing the desk.

      You need to buy the ar/vr set to see what the screen is displaying.

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      At the very least, the keyboard functions for power.

      There is plenty of room on the front for a power button. Should have removed the headphone jack.

      Lol, lmao.

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      Why care when we talk about desktops? Take the 512 GB model and attach a super fast and big external TB SSD.

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        Because we shouldn’t have to pay such prices to upgrade to a normal storage amount without dongles and external storage.

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        Why care when we talk about desktops?

        Because it’s $600 and velcroing an external HDD to a nice new sleek piece of hardware makes it look ugly. Typical Apple bullshit, I’m surprised they didn’t develop another proprietary connector.

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      There‘s nothing comparable on the market at this size and price when it comes to sheer power and energy efficiency.

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        $600 gets you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You can get better hardware for less.

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          Have you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?

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          Is there even a better ARM SoC? All I know of is the Snapdragon X Elites, which are either on par or slightly below the M4. And you can only get them in a laptop form factor at this point, cuz they cancelled the mini-PC dev kit.

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      M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.

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        I don’t think anything with the word “intel” can be taken seriously in value comparisons…

        When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn’t seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.

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          True. It was just the first comparison I saw when I searched for M4 benchmarks.

          Really, AMD isn’t even a fair comparison because we’re talking about an ARM SoC here. So maybe the Snapdragon dev kit that ultimately got cancelled?

          It was supposed to be $900, for a special Snapdragon X Elite, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.

          cpubenchmark.net has comparisons to other X Elite chips, putting them pretty much on-par with the M4 or maybe just below it.

          With the same amount of RAM and storage in a Mac Mini, you’re talkin $1200. So, $300 premium for a device that’s maybe 2-8% better, has retail support instead of being a dev kit, and… well, actually exists. It’s not a slam dunk for the Mini, but it’s clearly not a rip-off either.

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      Its not, you can build your own mini pc with a ryzen 9700X, more ram, more storage, and it would probrally cost less. In addition you wouldn’t be locked into the Apple ecosystem and you would be able to upgrade it.

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        Sure. And you can buy a dirt bike cheaper than an ATV. Yet people still buy ATVs.

        I’m not gonna do iOS dev or ML on a GMKtec no matter how cost-effective it is, just like I’m not gonna play x86 Windows games on a Mac even if I win a maxed-out unit in a giveaway.