I still remember one of my first requests when I was serving customers at an Apple Premium Reseller. “Sorry, I bought an iMac. Where does it light up?” And, if you think about it, someone who hasn’t had any contact with Apple doesn’t need to look deep.
The Mac mini follows in the same wake. Until now, the power button was located on the back, but after the renewal of the Mac mini M4, Apple moved it. And if, goes from back to bottom. If we thought that the Magic Mouse wasn’t enough, the Mac mini has arrived to liven up the debate.
Lift, turn and rest: the new way to turn on your Mac mini
It will be like doing biceps, but for your fingers. Some X users are already crying foul over the location of the power button. They compare it to the charging port on the bottom of the Magic Mousea port that has also been maintained by another generation.
This new position is at the very bottom. But this does not directly collide with our table, since the Mac mini M4 is raised by the foot where the cooling base is located. Depending on the location or thickness of our finger, we will have to lift the Mac mini a little or not.
The Mac mini M4 itself has a better power button
The location is somewhat strange, we won’t deny that. But more to the point, the button is better than that of the previous Mac mini. Because? The new button has a recess so it can be easily found by touch.without having to search. In the previous Mac mini, the button was flush with the aluminum body, making it harder to locate the exact spot without looking first or pressing multiple areas. Before, it was practically impossible to notice it with your finger if you didn’t know where it was.
Additionally, as a Mac mini user, I’ve often accidentally pressed the power button, simply while cleaning the area or moving it a bit. Now, since it’s at the bottom, it won’t be pressed unless you lift it up.
The humor in X didn’t take long to appear
The question is whether we turn the Mac on and off so often
I understand there are complaints about the location of the Magic Mouse’s charging port. Even though the battery lasts for months, if you make a mistake, several minutes go by where you can’t work while it’s connected. Here, however, you will need to change the way you turn on your Mac.
Even with the iPod, turning the device off was “difficult.” In fact, when I bought my first iPod nano, I had a hard time understanding that it didn’t turn off; he remained at rest.
Are you one of those people who religiously turns off their Mac every day? Or, on the contrary, the other group of people who don’t remember the last time they did it? Apple processors are becoming more and more efficient. And the consumption of its chips is so minimal that the power consumption that a Mac mini can have at idle will be a few cents per year. It’s paradoxical because the Mac mini is the first carbon-neutral Macso turning it off and on again should be encouraged. Or does it use more power to turn on your Mac? It depends on the number of programs and documents to load.
A decision inherited from Steve Jobs?
This countdown to turn off the Mac, the button combination on the iPhone, the fact that MacBooks don’t have a key with the shutdown icon itself… Steve Jobs saw the fact of turning off a device as a metaphor for the end. life. In his last years, He thought about death and how this simple action represented an abrupt closure. This vision translated into design decisions that made extinction difficult, as in the case of the iPod. In conversations with his biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs expressed his desire to believe in something beyond death, but he also recognized the possibility of an absolute end.
This article has veered into something more mystical, but at Apple, a company where careful thought goes into product boxes and the seconds they take to open, the fact that a button is in one place or another is not a coincidence. Particularly, I bought the Mac mini M4 and can’t wait to test it Whether or not there’s any drama when it comes to pressing the stop button.
In Applesfera | Shutdown, suspend or lock your Mac: what is recommended in each case
In Applesfera | Force Restart iPhone vs Turning It Off and On: What’s the Crucial Difference
Table of Contents
