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dutchlord said:

...do you find any M3 24 inch iMac owner who finds his machine so slow that he needs to upgrade to a M4 model? Don’t think so. So what’s the point in releasing an M4 iMac anyway as there is no other differentiator.

Other differentiators: Slightly changed color hue of chassis; Option of antireflective screen; Thunderbolt 4 (and all four ports offer USB 4 with 20Gb/s)

But yeah, as an M3 owner, what I mainly want to know is the real-world speed boost.  Alas, that is the one differentiator that is mainly missing from the comparison (benchmark speed ratings).  5% faster? 50% faster?  5X faster?  Going to TB5 would have been nice, but is N/A on this model.

Okay, so where are the benchmark data?  Benchmarks were the ONE aspect of the M4 iMac that I wanted to see, and they were implied to be here by the article title "...iconic Mac gets a speed boost"

The M4 differs in that it has four Thunderbolt 4 ports.

This appears to disagree with Apple's specs on its website, which describes three thunderbolt 4/5 ports.

NickRno77 said: ... Equally because my Office is my Bedroom I want to sleep so I don't want the lights of all the devices and the noise of the Hard Drive keeping me awake.

Indeed, those of us living in rural areas often enjoy our darkness and can be disturbed by small light sources.  I am sometimes annoyed by the tiny led charging indicator on my toothbrush which is in the next room, but perceptibly reflects off the walls there, to shine through the doorway and across my bed.

If the Mini can stably rest on its side, with the power cord at the bottom as suggested by another post here, that puts the switch at the top and readily accessible for those who anticipate an issue.  There's more than one way to skin the proverbial.  Meow!

PS: Personally, I'm far more annoyed at AI's use of the term "hack" in the title of this article.

This "clever hack" was my first impulse when the new Mini was revealed. But the better solution for many would be a curved button-on-a-flexing-stick, enclosed in a self-adhesive sleeve fitted to the rounded corner nook (wasted space) of the rear-left side of the Mini, such that  gently pressing the lever (which rests flush to the top of the Mini, in that corner space) causes actuation of the power switch.  A small spring akin to those used in many ballpoint pens can be concealed in the sleeve, thus returning the button to its neutral resting state.  The entire self-adhesive assembly could be user-installed in a matter of seconds, and would be at the ready whenever needed.  Because it occupies the "wasted space" created by the curvature of the mini's corner, and does not protrude above the chassis, it becomes effectively ZERO FOOTPRINT.  Because the sleeve itself curves underneath and then upwards to the OEM switch, it does not require a table surface to create a pivoting point and, thus would be operable even if Minis are stacked like bricks.  I hereby claim ownership of this invention and grant royalty-free rights in perpetuity to any manufacturer to make and sell this device.