MplsP

williamlondon said:

Doodpants said:

Since it sits under the Mac, they should have included a mechanism that can poke up at the power button.

Maybe they decided that negative nellies and children weren't their target market.

mac'em x said:

rezwits said:

...but the power button was in an awkward place when switching the cables.  So actually I am gonna luv this now.

Exactly. With the new design, you can pick the thing up in fat grabby fingers, pull cables out, turn the unit around, push cables in, manhandle the thing like your nonna squeezing the melanzanas at Guido's Grocery, and you won't accidentally press the power button. The new mini's power button is right where it should be.

ITGUYINSD said:

macxpress said:

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.

The upgradable SSD is a moot point anyways. 99.9% of owners will never upgrade it nor care to. 

Really?  Did you take a poll to get that 99.9% figure or did you just pull that out of some dark, moist crevasse between your bum-cheeks?  YOU may never do it, but don't speak for everyone else.  You might use the PC market as an example as to how many people ARE interested in upgrading their SSD as the retail SSD market is HUGE.

mattinoz said:

MplsP said:

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?????

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.) 

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. 

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