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Power press: Fixes for Apple's oddly-placed Mac mini button
How about the one Apple spoke of in the presentation. By moving to a pressed aluminium shell instead of a machined one they saved significant amounts of aluminium in the casing production.MplsP said:
The solution is to think more than a 3rd grader when making stupid design decisions. Give one justification for the placement (no, not excuses as to why it’s not that big of a deal. I’m talking a valid justification.)macxpress said:mrr said:This was incredibly bad design from Apple.My solution has been place a a small candy box that is about a half inch in width underneath my Mac mini, so that my finger can fit under it. It makes it appear that the Mac mini is floating.
How many times are you shutting down your desktop Mac? It's not a bad design at all. JFC people making a big deal out of shit that doesn't need a big deal made out of. It's maddening!
The solution is to not shut your fuckin Mac off...how about that? Just put it to sleep and then wake up when you wanna use it again. Is that so hard?????Knock on effect being the internals need to slide in to the case and button on the side would need to be heavily in set to allow it to slide.Or move to the top or bottom they choose the bottom potentially to allow easy cabling given wifi is also in the bottom.Still they should let you configure them to boot on power connection in the store interface
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Trump tariffs will raise prices, but Apple has set the table to avoid the worst of it
Hopefully Apple will decouple from US dollar as default product pricing that sets international pricing.That would be bad for the US but it’s self inflicted so to bad. -
Apple makes room for new Macs by rethinking retail Vision Pro demo stations
Apple Watch - iPad - Vision is Apple core line up by the end of next decade from what I can see. Well plus cloud computing.BirderGuy said:Only 500,000? That would account for 1.75 BILLION dollars in sales, not including add-ons. Not to mention that in the first year, due to the technology and complexity of the Vision Pro, that may have been the upper limit of what they could manufacture. A product that takes in nearly 2 billion dollars is in no way a failure. It is the first step in a bigger plan most people,(myself included), don’t have the imaginations to comprehend what Apple will come up with next. If a future version sells for what I pay for an iPhone Pro, I’ll skip the iPhone upgrade and get the “Vision Mini” or whatever they choose to call it. All you folks who think Vision Pro is a failure, get back to me when you create a product that sells nearly 500,000 units in the first year and has over a billion dollars in sales, then I’ll maybe respect what you have to say.
not everyone will own the full set just the parts that make sense to them. -
New Mac mini has a slotted & removable SSD -- but don't expect upgrades
To me begs the question why aren’t the module maker looking to see if they could not package their product better and out do Apple. If they create direct board physically attached modules.It would allow them to cut a middle man out of the m.w module makers.shamino said:YP101 said:I don't think user upgradeable for storage anyway. This was same for Mac Studio.
Apple coded each storage for specific unit so user can't upgrade. Unless Apple change the way.Except that, as the hacker community discovered, if you use new (that is, never-been-written) flash chips, you can use Apple's Configurator 2 utility to initialize them and install macOS. This will set up the cryptographic pairing. You can't wipe used flash modules (e.g. to move storage from one Mac to another), but it does means that upgrades are possible.So far, we've just seen some people making bare circuit boards and you need the microsoldering skills necessary to attach new flash chips to those boards, but I think it's just a matter of time before someone starts selling boards with chips pre-installed. So even if end-user upgrades won't be practical, I think we will soon see independent repair shops that can do it. -
Apple makes room for new Macs by rethinking retail Vision Pro demo stations
I’m sure they never left the drawing board.Cesar Battistini Maziero said:Apple needs to rethink the vision pro.Back to the drawing board.I also doubt you’ll like the response.
