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Apple explains why the Mac Mini power button is hidden underneath (www.theshortcut.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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🤔 Apple has shared why the power button on the Mac Mini M4 is hidden

🤏 It’s mainly because of the Mac Mini’s compact size

🤷‍♂️ But also because users apparently never use the power button on a Mac

👉 Apple also says the button can be accessed easily, even though it’s underneath

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (13 children)

My work computer yes, but I always shutdown my home computer when I am done with it.

With NVMe SSDs, computers boot fast enough that sleep mode doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (12 children)

With current hardware the power draw at sleep is negligible, so power off doesn’t matter.

You can spin this argument both ways. And sleep is more convenient, so that’s what most people choose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I don't care about the power draw, I care about peace of mind.

I don't want my computer running in the background constantly.

I get the convenience factor at work, but at home?

Nah, it is far nicer to have a fresh and ready computer rather than wake up to all your old crap that you have forgotten about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't remember where I watched it - but I saw some video a while ago now where (I think) the engineer was explaining that shutdown & power on does less of a cleanout than restart on Windows. Something to do with shutdown going through steps more similar to a sleep/suspend than restart. Made little sense to me but would be interesting to see if post restart or post power-on the computer was "fresher"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

You are probably talking about fast startup, a stupid feature that I disable as soon as I can after installing Windows.

Fast startup is like a deep sleep state and causes way more issues than it would ever solve.

It is a feature that is looking for one specific problem to solve at the expense of long term stabillity and as an IT guy I hate it.

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