This is ridiclous

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    697·
    4 个月前

    Wait, WHAT?

    They put the powerbutton on the underside?

    For fuck sake Apple…

    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      751·
      4 个月前

      “Our new Mac Mini is so powerful, so extraordinary, you’ll never want to turn it off.” – Tim Apple, probably.

    • Luu Tuyen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2210·
      4 个月前

      It’s very bad idea to put power button under the bottom, Who think the designer should need to be fired here

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        471·
        4 个月前

        Wouldn’t surprise me if it was the same guy who put the charge port on the magic mouse on the bottom.

        That at least has a logical excuse if dumb as hell, this has zero reason to be like this

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          7·
          4 个月前

          Apple didn’t want to muddy their nice design by including functions.

          Frankly you’re lucky it has any ports

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            4 个月前

            Honestly though, they should have added Qi charging to the magic mouse, as well as magnets to you could easily place it on the back of the iMac and have it charging when you leave the computer…

  • auzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    442·
    4 个月前

    Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        4 个月前

        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.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          4 个月前

          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!

      • auzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        171·
        4 个月前

        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

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 个月前

      It is convenient when you don’t hit that button accidentally, only by lifting the thing up.

      Seems consistent with the Apple justification of “ape users shouldn’t be physically able to do something stupid, then they won’t blame the computer”.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    443·
    4 个月前

    I can’t wait for Apple to reveal a desk, with a keyboard built-in underneath the back side of it.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    445·
    4 个月前

    So many people referring to using the button to turn the computer off, but more than 95% of the time, you use the OS to turn a computer off. It’s only when there’s a malfunction you would need to turn it off with a hardware button.

    This button is primarily for turning the computer on.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        74·
        4 个月前

        This button is primarily for turning the computer on.

        Sure but you still need to turn it on though?

        ?

        • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          4 个月前

          I’m trying to say that it’s still a useful button to have in an accessible spot because, exactly as you said, it is still used to turn it on.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 个月前

        Not even 0.5% of the time you’re interacting with the computer would you even think about the power button. Maybe in the first week because “lawl it’s on the bottom, Apple so stoopid.” Then you’d just get used to poking under the bottom of the computer and it turns on.

        IMO this is infinitely better than on the back like the old Mac mini. My mini is behind my headphone amp, and under a monitor so any time I need to hit the power button it’s a LONG awkward reach.

        • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 个月前

          That’s assuming there’s sufficient space. Even then if you look at the picture, you can see that the power button is on the bottom of the back side of the device. This makes it even harder to reach than if it were simply on the back since you’d need to contort your finger on top of a long awkward reach.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      4 个月前

      Well like a lover you must reach behind and underneath to turn them on!

      …I seriously do not like Apples design language that basically requires me to fondle unseeable parts of the computer to find the power button. Too much risk of spiders back there!

    • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 个月前

      I turn off my computer everyday maybe I’m one of those crazy ones. I think they did that so people would be discouraged to turn it off. They want the users to use their new AI feature. My other thinking is marketing if people talk about your product that’s probably a good thing.

    • dingdong@lemm.eeEnglish
      73·
      4 个月前

      I assume there will be a power button on the keyboard or mouse. This is just sort of a backup.

        • dingdong@lemm.eeEnglish
          203·
          4 个月前

          I don’t, but apple does. This is why the touch ID is in the keyboard. To be fair it does come as a unit if you buy the mac new.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      723·
      4 个月前

      A short press of the power button shuts down almost any computer in existence, why would you use the OS?

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        204·
        4 个月前

        It’s still the OS doing it, it’s just reacting to the power button press like any other input device.

        • dingdong@lemm.eeEnglish
          33·
          4 个月前

          Not if you hold the power button. Yeah if you single press a power button, the os can divert that, but long press, the SMC will cut power. Similarly how, pressing and holding the power and the volume down button on a phone, cuts power, even if the OS is hard frozen. Sometimes you just need an emergency exit.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
            25·
            4 个月前

            Someone who isn’t a pedant would interpret “using the OS” as going through the start menu, or equivalent.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        4 个月前

        You raise a good point

        Honestly for me it’s muscle memory from the Windows 95 days of “it is now safe to turn off your computer” but I also don’t trust the OS to correctly interpret the ACPI signal sent by the power button 100% of the time. Obviously I’m not an average user, but I could see where an average user might consistently single press the power button to turn off a computer

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    361·
    4 个月前

    excellent marketing strategy to get us talking about their stuff that would otherwise get almost completely under our radar.

    i mean fuck where the power button of a product ill probably never need is.

  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
    332·
    4 个月前

    Why can’t they put the power button on the front where it belongs. It’s already stupid that they put it on the back, putting it on the bottom is downright idiotic. If they don’t want to mess up the oh so important Apple aesthetic just make it an invisible touch button or something. Apple hates usability.

      • filcuk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        23·
        4 个月前

        For you to put your nasty fingerprints all over it?? I don’t think so

        • Apple, probably
        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          4·
          4 个月前

          Every person I have ever met that uses an iMac for the first time naturally assumes that the Apple icon is the power button. Fact that it isn’t the power button is utterly idiotic

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      61·
      4 个月前

      Desktop macs (not tower macs) has had the powerbutton on the back for decades, it’s fine, bottom is shit though…

      • accideath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        212·
        4 个月前

        Back is already bullshit. We have a few trashcan mac pros at work and usually they’re just turned so all the cables stick out towards the user because then you can easily reach the power button. Which makes it look worse than just having a power button in an accessible place aka the front or the top in the first place.

        • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          4 个月前

          Yeah, I can see that, I was just trying to say that there Mac followed a standard

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    4 个月前

    So they created more vertical space on the case, which would be a perfect spot for a power button - or even more ports… and then didn’t use it.

    True to form, if I’m honest.

    That aside, I love that they’re getting rid of the idiotic 8GB baseline spec.