Apple‘s new Mac mini is fairly wonderful. It is a machine I dreamed about once I was a child: a quiet little aluminum field that packs immense energy (particularly if you happen to equip it with Apple’s new M4 Professional chip).
There’s one factor in regards to the newest Mac mini, nevertheless, that strikes me as odd. The machine has two USB-C ports and a headphone jack on the entrance, and three extra Thunderbolt ports, an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, and an influence plug on the again.
There is not any seen energy button, although. So how do you flip this factor on and off? Simple: You raise it, attain beneath it, and (in all probability) blindly search together with your hand till you discover the ability button — as a result of the ability button is situated on the underside of the Mac mini.
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Now, the Mac mini doesn’t lay absolutely flat on the floor of your desktop (ground, and so on), so that you would possibly be capable of flip it on and off with out lifting it into the air. However provided that desktop computer systems — even when they’re as tiny as the brand new mini — are sometimes stowed away someplace in the back of your desk, or beneath it, this could possibly be a little bit of a nuisance.
Maybe it isn’t as dangerous because it seems.
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Apple’s product design is usually fairly nice, however the firm does make odd selections like this each infrequently, with essentially the most egregious instance being the Magic Mouse, which is charged through a plug on the underside. Arguably, the ability button placement on the brand new Mac mini is even worse, as turning the pc on and off (or forcing a reboot) is likely to be one thing you do extra typically than you cost your mouse.
It is potential that the Mac mini is so…properly, mini, that Apple needed to get inventive in the case of energy button placement as to preserve as a lot house as potential. Nonetheless, the ability button does look like one thing that might match on the again, or the entrance, or the highest of the mini — anyplace moreover the underside, actually. All of it appears fairly odd, although maybe it is one thing you may get used to; we’ll let you know how this works in observe as soon as we spend a while with the mini.
