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My AppleTV needs securing to the surface it's on as it's so light and small the connected cables easily pull it out of position. Unless they intend to abandon the majority of ports on a new Mac Mini then I can see the problem being far worse. If the solution is to just add external hubs then that's going to suck.

By all means reduce the size fractionally, but not at the expense of ports ...or weight, it needs to stay put.

I would sooner they kept the Mac Mini design and shrank the Mac Studio to the smaller form-factor. Those calling for a smaller Mac Mini should consider how such a small design is going to cope with cables in-and-out of it on multiple sides, very messy. Also it needs to have some weight, otherwise, said cabling is going to disturb how it sits on a surface. It doesn't need to be tiny.

I would prefer to see keyboard and trackpad designs that offer some of the functionality of dedicated control-surfaces, for example, a trackpad with a weighted aluminium control-knob above it for volume control or even a jog-shuttle dial built-in, plus of course a scattering of buttons. 

I would be willing to pay for the OS if they'd just fix the bugs in Finder that send me back to the root-level every time I delete an item in column-view, or provide auto-resizing of columns in column-view, or allow me to hide all unwanted fonts in font-menus.

No new features please, just fix the bloody bugs.

I would suggest those that seek integration without the costly Fantastical subscription, check out Calendar 365 II. The menubar calendar and iPhone app are particularly effective and aesthetically balanced. 

I would prefer it if Apple's priority with MacOS was fixing the numerous bugs in Finder that have been present for years, providing auto-sizing of columns (since they've nobbled every third-party app that enabled it in the last 20 years), and enabling system-wide font management that hides the numerous bloody fonts that are of no use and clog-up font menus.

Add to that a means to separate and label bookmarks in drop-downs, and allow white-listing of cookies (Safari), and organise genres in a user-defined order and stop attaching unconnected artwork to playlists (Music).