@nikitonsky it took them decades but they finally found a way of hiding the unsightly power button that ruins the user experience for so many people. mine is literally a key on my laptop keyboard, with a light, taunting me constantly. it would be so much better to lift the whole thing up and find some button on the bottom, should i ever want to use it, first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

in this post i have been so sarcastic i've forgotten who i am.

@nikitonsky ...Is step zero to apply pine tar to your fingers?

@nikitonsky totally retarded

@nikitonsky I guess you never turn it off and rather press a keyboard key wake it up (like a Macbook). 🤔

@nikitonsky I'll just pull the cable out

@nikitonsky *Thinks back to the mouse with a charging port on the underside*
Yep, that's Apple

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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online panel 3 needs to be repeated, but with more hands appearing each time

@nikitonsky Apple must really be sniffing their own farts here.

@nikitonsky What the heck is it with Apple and hiding basic functionality on the underside of their devices???

@nikitonsky and ... all these apple fanboys are going to defend it by saying - yeah keeping it on all the time is great - we don't need that button - and apple is a very ecological/green company, keeping it on all the time is very ecological ... chumps

@nikitonsky I mean.. practically it’s not a big deal I guess since most people leave it on all the time. But it’s still kinda weird???

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This gives "turning off" a whole new meaning.

@nikitonsky seems fine. 99% of the time you’ll use the keyboard and mouse to sleep/wake it.

@nikitonsky The performative outrage over this is honestly pathetic. You can very obviously still press the button without lifting the machine.

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Last time I rebooted my iMac was 37 days ago
I can’t actually remember the last time I turned it off

@nikitonsky Just looked it up, I really thought the hit the top level of stupid with the magic mouse charging at the bottom 🤦🏼‍♂️

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You need one person to lift the Mac mini and another one pushing the on/off button?

@nikitonsky I could be wrong but that third picture appears to involve two persons. That's especially concerning.

@nikitonsky “Apple design”

how do I avoid posts about Mac design in my "Explore" section in future?

@nikitonsky one hell of a hug-radius there in frame 3.

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OSX is a flavour of BSD.

Once you power it on, it will run till the cold death of the universe 🤪

@nikitonsky this is garbage design, and whoever came up with it should feel ashamed. I’m half tempted to just keep my 2018 black mini, the sexiest computer they made since the last G3 PowerBook went away in 2001. Or possibly do a case swap with the last model mini.

@nikitonsky Apple will do away with the power button soon.

@nikitonsky Let me think, when did I last press the start button on my Mac Studio M1 Ultra…? I think it was the day I got it, a few years ago.
This ain’t no friggin‘ Windows PC, you don’t need to ever turn it off.

@nikitonsky 1) What

@nikitonsky World class design lol

@nikitonsky you've clearly never had to hunt for the power switch on a mini or studio before where you can't turn it around because everything's plugged in, and the button is flat and you last used it a month ago so you forgot which side it's on.

i think this is actually way way better than having the button on the back 🤷 non-issue.

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Same design team that created the Magic Mouse charging port?

@nikitonsky That's uncharacteristically clumsy for Apple.

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That's upsetting.

@nikitonsky I am not kidding: I am glad it's this way! You don't KNOW how many times I hit that damned button accidentally in a week while holding the mini still for other things like plugging something in or moving the mini itself!

@nikitonsky Is there also a USB port underneath for charging your Magic Mouse?

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At this point, Apple should just continue embracing (read: "exploiting") the allegiance of their customers.. and sell them a $200 metal stand for mounting it vertically

Kind of like the stand + castors they sold for the "cheese shredder" Mac Tower. 😉

@nikitonsky This design philosophy is being taught somewhere, and that place needs to be tipped up onto one edge and then burnt to ash.

@nikitonsky oh my god

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@nikitonsky No you don't need to turn it off like this. Nobody turn off with power button.

@nikitonsky Yeah NBD. It's been super clumsy to turn off your phone for a decade, nobody really noticed. You generally just leave low power devices like this running all the time.

@nikitonsky why have the button? Tipping it up should do it. Not sure if sarcastic

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Yeah, that's a no for us dawg

@nikitonsky for the love of FUCK, #apple - why?!?

@nikitonsky Yeah, that seems about right.

@nikitonsky Now I know why apple doesn't change their designs: they shouldn't

@nikitonsky Ah, the nice Apple function follows form approach is back.

@nikitonsky @anildash they weren’t happy by keeping the charging port at the bottom for the mouse. They needed more people to hate them

@nikitonsky Is this not traditional 20th century Apple design philosophy, the hardest thing about an Apple computer was supposed to be how to turn it on (or off)?

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I am at awe about all the ppl not turning their PCs off when not using them.

Electricity not only costs money, it also needs ressources. Why keeping a device on when not using it?

That is a very strange mindset.
It is good for the environment and purse to even avoid stand by modes.

Am i too german to understand why humans would decide to not spare ressources?

@nikitonsky @anildash Not entirely sure of the problem here … from other images I’ve seen, I could fit an index finger under the edge with no lifting of the unit, and as others have said “why switch it off?” - I have to use the physical button occasionally on my current Mini, but it’s 12 years old and getting a little flaky …

@nikitonsky Do people turn off their computers? I never do, they’re either in use or in standby.

@nikitonsky they don't want you to turn it off, then they can't get telemetry 24/7.

@nikitonsky The most disturbing thing I see is that you need two left hands to switch it on/ off as instructed.

@nikitonsky Well, these three times a year, it won’t hurt, I guess… 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Apple, sick by design …

@nikitonsky @tclementdev No one turns a Mac off by pressing a button. You choose shut down from the Apple menu.

> How often do you need to turn it off?

That’s not an excuse to do a lousy job. You only see packaging box once and throw it away, but it’s still designed nicely.

> Macs are supposed to be left turned on

With amount of bugs modern Apple produces it’s becoming wishful thinking

I bought an M1 Mac mini a month ago, left it on overnight, in the morning it was borderline usable. Even typing was lagging

Somehow it ate up all the memory and was swapping like crazy for an animated background video

@nikitonsky every single time I consider getting a new Mac, it's some new daft reason not to.

I suppose I could use it upside-down? Or mount it sideways? I'm definitely not leaving it eternally powered on.

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@nikitonsky That's okay, desktops shouldn't shut down, except in the case of transportation.

@nikitonsky just sit it upside down. Now the button it on the top, and the hot air will flow upwards now.

@nikitonsky @david_swift Why not make the logo a capacitive touch area?

@nikitonsky I guess I don't really power my mac mini on and off all that often, so having the button kinda hidden isn't too bad. But this is just asinine!

@nikitonsky What would be cool is to 3d print something to fix it. Like, to make the computer itself the button.

@nikitonsky @catsalad Maybe they just printed the port labels upside-down.

@nikitonsky @jaywilliams does the person have two left hands or are you suggesting that it takes two people to perform the operation?

@nikitonsky plot twist: you usually don't :D also, “from the designers of Magic Mouse”