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 > 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 10 comments
 I wouldn't call it a "lousy job" when it's intentionally designed towards that goal - especially when prioritising form factor, it's the least important element and then only one that can go there. My mileage is vastly different and I'm constantly impressed by the performance and efficiency of my m1 13" air. Hitting several months of uptime is very common for me and I'm a tmux-session-hoarder and have too many apps running at all times. That being said they could've also put it on the top front with touch id to make sure that people would keep it on their desks and within reach so that the mini would be visible at all times. @nikitonsky maybe there’ll emerge a small industry of mac mini *pedestals*? Like the aftermarket for phone cases. Something pretty or practical to hold it up while exposing the button.    @nikitonsky this box can only be opened from the bottom so you can’t use it for anything else anyway, is that right? |
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@nikitonsky I’ve had one of those for over a year and it’s always running out of memory and forcing a restart if you leave it on. There’s also a weird power issue with accessories where it’ll claim anything you plug in is “drawing too much power” and is shut off without notice. Apple software quality went off a cliff a few years ago.