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  • Satechi redesigns its hub to fit the new, smaller M4 Mac mini

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    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.
    You mean people with common sense?
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  • M4 Pro Mac mini vs M1 Max Mac Studio compared: Smaller and better

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    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.
    Until you pick it up by putting your fingers underneath and thumb on the top and…oops. Honestly, they should have simply had the power button on the front disguised as an apple logo. 
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  • Hands on: Apple's USB-C accessories leave us wanting more

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    charlesn said:
    Another case where Apple leaves easy money on the table and I wonder why. Backlit keyboard + USB-C? Sure, I'll upgrade! Just USB-C? No thanks, i'll keep my Touch ID Lightning Keyboard. Same for Magic Mouse and Trackpad. Same for AirPods Max USB-C. All long in the tooth products more than ready for some kind of refresh, but Apple just swaps out the charging port and that's it. It's funny that they took this opportunity to remove the etched Apple logo on the bottom of Magic Mouse--would have loved to have been in the meeting where they discussed a long list of tweaks they could have made, but only removing the Apple logo made it through! What was THAT decision about? Did they save some fraction of a penny on a bottom plate with no etching? Well, at least Apple is saving me money! 
    It's pretty clear that Apple is investing as little as possible into these. Just like the AirPods Max in which they did nothing to update the product, they just changed the port. Same thing here - they could have made a backlit keyboard or added other features. They could have fixed the position of the port on the mouse, but nope. They took the lazy route. 
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  • New Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard don't work with older versions of macOS

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    It’s a keyboard. There are 29 year old keyboards that still work just fine with new computers and vice versa. Hell - you can still use the old PS2 connector keyboards if you have the adapter. If it had Touch ID or some other new functionality I could understand but there really is no excuse for a basic keyboard not to be compatible. 
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  • Apple's Magic Mouse charging port design has never been a big deal

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    NEO_STEPHENS said:
    The Apple Apologist in full effect. If that was ANY other company that did that, you'd be talking about how bad of a design it was and who in the world would put the charging port on the bottom of a mouse so that you can't use it while it's charging.

    Doesn't matter how often or not it needs charging, still an awful way to do that!!
    This x1000

    Is there ANY functional reason to have the port on the bottom? No. Is there ANY advantage? No. 

    Bottom line: there is no reason and no advantage but very clear disadvantages. Hallmarks of bad design. The best argument I've seen people come up with is 'well, it's not that bad and it doesn't disrupt your workflow that much.' Seriously, such (attempted) arguments call into question the intelligence and ability to reason of the people making them.
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