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M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

My theory is: free publicity. Just like the fashion industry comes up with ridiculous clothes that no one would ever wear, attention whores will constantly do outrageous things so that people will talk about them. The number of electrons spilled over this stupid mouse port placement over the years is uncountable. But the repeated conversations keep Apple in the public consciousness as a fashionista.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think it’s more just their minimal design combined with the fact that a normal user will never press the power button. Most people don’t shut down their computers, and if they do, a key on the keyboard turns it on.

The only argument I’ve seen to this being bad is in a server rack environment.