I love the idea of it, and I love how tiny it is. Will probably get one when money isn’t so tight.

But I was curious if the power button was accessible without lifting it. And it genuinely isn’t. Why does Apple like shoving important IO and buttons underneath the device. Good thing it’s light?

Oh and a funny thing was the staff had to loosen its mount on the table so you could turn it on.

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    The power button thing doesn’t matter. It’s not a PC, you never turn it off.

    I love mine. Exactly the solution I was looking for. I was going to get a Mac Studio but it was too expensive and this meets all of my needs for a work desktop.

    Mac Studio resale prices around here are just tanking right now.

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      The power button thing doesn’t matter. It’s not a PC, you never turn it off

      Maybe not but it’s just crazy that a company can be so ignorant.

      Why do they intentionally place the power button in the absolute worst place imaginable?

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        The best explanation I’ve heard is they have someone who intentionally makes a subtle yet inconsequential change for internet people to whine about.

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      It’s not a personal computer? That’s what the PC acronym means. You make no sense. Please elaborate.

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        You’re correct, but somehow PC became a term for a windows, or non-mac computers. Probably because of all the advertising apple did to set Macs apart from other computers.

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        Wiktionary, the free dictionary

        Noun PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

        Initialism of personal computer.

        A personal computer, especially one similar to an IBM PC that runs Microsoft Windows (or, originally, DOS), usually as opposed to (say) an Apple Mac.

        1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, numbers 27-39, page 28: “For some of the imaging we do,” says Richard Miner, research manager at the University of Lowell’s Center for Productivity Enhancement, “we are using both the Amiga and the PC [with the bridge card]. […]

        2006, Sonia Weiss, Streetwise Selling On Ebay, →ISBN, page 89: In general, the prices for PC and Mac laptops can be competitive, […]

        2010, Ann Raimes, Maria Jerskey, Keys for Writers, →ISBN, page 297: Versions of Word for PC and Mac It is not unusual to find both Mac and PC computers in college computer laboratories, so you may need to become familiar with both Word for PCs and Word for Mac.