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      15 days ago

      Looks like that power button wasn’t placed by a circus clown and it has an option for USB PD, yeah this is more like it.

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        16 days ago

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

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          16 days ago

          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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      16 days ago

      When… have their products ever been competitive on price? Not even shitting on them, but there’s always been an Apple tax.

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        Back in 2009-2010 I bought an entry level 13" MacBook Pro because it was fairly competitively priced compared to other options with similar specs, but the MBP had by far the better battery life, display quality, touchpad, and probably keyboard. It was easily worth the upcharge for those factors, so no real Apple Tax.

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        Honestly, now that they put in a reasonable amount of RAM, with a processor that strong and some external storage, 600USD isn’t that terrible of a price.

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          I’d need to see what comparable x86 processors and graphics are to the M4, but yeah, this seems like it could be one of the first Macs in a while to be really competitive on price. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Fifteen years ago, a couple years after Macintosh went to Intel, I bought a Mac Pro. I had a hard time comparing prices at first, but once I finally realized I needed to be looking at workstations instead of desktops the Mac Pro actually came out to be about $300 less than identically spec’d workstations from Dell and HP. That was about the price of a full retail license on Windows Vista Ultimate (or later Windows 7 Ultimate). With Boot Camp and feeling like I could find Windows on sale for less it actually seemed to make the most sense with the added benefit of access to both Windows and OS X. It was frankly the best Windows machine I’ve ever used. No bloat, and all the drivers worked.

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      I think the issue is - I would buy something positioned as a very long-living and good machine for that price.

      Like Sun workstations were. The design and experience of everything.

      The issue with Apple is that these things look expensive, temporary and inconvenient (that feeling of concept nice to look at … for a day or so). And what’s worse, they are.

      I hope Larry Ellison gets geriatric demented sooner, maybe then he’ll try to resurrect Sun as a separate entity. Just joking, even to Larry Ellison I only wish good health.

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    16 days ago

    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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        16 days ago

        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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    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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      The previous model has it in the back, you can’t even feel it properly because it’s not recessed.

      On the other hand the last time I turned off my M1 mini was when we moved. It’s 100% silent and takes less power than a lightbulb when it sleeps, so why would I bother powering it off.

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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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        Apple reported to say that you don’t need to use the power button because Mac Mini is not required to shut off.

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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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          They also know their target audience has plenty of people who gobble up every bad design decision and even defend it online years later.

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          I don’t understand what was wrong with the original version that just took 2 AA batteries. Reaching for the AA charger and swapping cells not awkward enough or something?

          Smart and elegant design would be hiding a battery charger in the iMac it self (maybe even use something smaller than AA), not expect you to flip and plug in your mouse every time ya leave it. The Nintendo Switch, while a completely different form factor, is a great example of an elegant (you could even say “wireless”) charging solution.

          I’m getting really sick of the Apple esthetic of sticking out wires, be it the mouse or the dozen dongles for every portable device they now make. Uh! Can’t forget the world’s only pen that needs charging, for seemingly no reason.

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            They can fit a bigger rechargeable battery in the same space as a battery bay for replaceable batteries. Plus it eliminates the waste of throwing away batteries, and has longer battery life than similarly sized alkalines.

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          People treat it like a mistake, but the Emperor has no clothes and people are catching on.

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        16 days ago

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

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            It’s better for display

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

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

              Trying before you buy is literally the entire point of the apple store

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                How often have you tried charging while there?

                What software do they let you load?

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                  When I check out a device in the store I definitely pick it up, hold it, turn it over, and generally look at every part of it. Things like a charging port on the bottom would probably stick out…

                  Or like in this case, with the power button on the bottom, I’d definitely notice that as annoying.

                  What software do they let you load?

                  Basically anything you want, they don’t tend to watch you at the apple store, unless you seem like you actually want to buy something. They want you to mess around with the machines, so I’ve never seen them password protected in any way, you have admin access.