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  • Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

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    MrBunside said:
    They also put the exhaust ports on the bottom - is it possible that the bottom is actually the top?  Functionally, leaving it black-side up makes more sense, right?
    i was thinking the opposite - that there may be some ?fluid dynamic? reason that airflow may be impacted if it is not on a hard surface? this i am just guessing at - but i remember the Apple laptops that couldn't be used on a lap because they would overheat.

     https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

    about 1/3 of the way down, "Built to Chill", there is a good animation of the air flow - Apple says all the air "flows through the foot" so the power button and vents are definitely meant to be on the bottom.

    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

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    neilm said:
    Since nobody here has yet laid eyes, much less hands, on the new Mac mini, none of these complaints have any validity.
    so are you saying we should give Apple's images no credence?!?
    the complaints have plenty of validity being that Apple has published plenty of photographs and specs

    valid
    adjective
    (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent: a valid criticism.

    https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

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    programmer said:
    It’s almost like they don’t want people pushing that button.  And don’t want accidental pushes when trying to use the ports.  And the machine is tiny and weighs practically nothing, so if you do have to push it tilting it slightly is hardly a problem, if even necessary.

    Seems like making a mountain out of a molehill.
     your use case is obviously not an office of dozens of mounted Mac minis.

    One home user's molehill is a small business mountain.
    williamlondon

  • Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

    sandorsandor
    For over 15 years we have wall/under desk mounted Mac minis @ our office.

    I was excited about the new version until i saw this ridiculousness.
    Out of 25+ Macs, at least one a day will need to be force shutdown/restarted (usually due to the Finder crashing/freezing0
    williamlondon

  • Apple Silicon Macs are staying in use longer than Intel Macs

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    blastdoor said:
    sandor said:
    blastdoor said:
    Apple silicon is a game changer but people forget how much of a difference SSD hard drives made when they were introduced. Our 2011 MBA (SSD) died this year. It kept going well beyond software support ending and the only repair was a battery replacement. Without SSD the Intel processor would have been practically unusable a long time ago. I had a MacBook Pro with HDD (also 2011 model year) for work around 2014-2016 and it was so slow as to be almost unusable compared with the humble MBA.
    SSDs were definitely a huge upgrade.

    ...Mac OS does a great job of prioritizing system responsiveness to the user,...
    We must not be working with the same Finder. 

    I have seen no substantive reduction in beach balling from 10.13 through macOS 14.

    in our environment, i would estimate at least one daily force restart (hold power button down) because of a beach balling Finder.

    Kernel panics have definitely improved - we have 10.14 & 10.15 machines that panic at least once per week, however we very rarely see the macOS 13/14 machines panic.
    That’s weird. My Mac goes for months without a reboot, and then it’s usually for an OS update. I typically use it at least eight hours a day with multiple spaces and a wide range of apps and terminals open. This has been my typical experience with Macs going back to when I returned to the platform in 2006. 

    The only times I’ve experienced lags with the finder are from external HDDs, when they spin up from sleep. So, SSDs are the way to go. 

    Curious to hear if you have any guesses as to what’s causing your problems. It sounds very abnormal to me. 
    The specific machines i am speaking of are on a fibre network connected to our RAID arrays. 
    Our workstations are through-putting multiple TBs.

    Honestly i think it is a ram usage issue for the most part & if we scheduled restarts during the day it would help. 
    We have a few Mac Pros with 128+ GB of ram & they have far fewer issues - the machines 32 GB & under are the problem ones.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra