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This is ridiclous

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Or 3D print a stand to keep it sideways.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour ago

Or not buy it

[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

At least it does mean your cat can never turn off your pc ever again with this

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

Computer so tiny cat knocks it off the desk instead

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I just stuck a Belgium post WW2 MP helmet on mine, pretty effective at keeping my power button safe. Just like how judging frok the dent it kept some Belgian from getting their head caved in by a beer bottle.

[–] TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Now you can slam the top of the machine to boot it up

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 32 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Apple insider are already framing this as not a design flaw but an advantage somehow

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago

it opens up a whole new surface for things. Soon there will be a dozen USB C ports on the bottom and you'll need to buy special apple right angle cables to access them that they charge $30 per 1m cable.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Trust us. We're THE design company!

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah.. I used to sell Apple gear.

When Apple announced the Mighty mouse 20 years ago, everyone was super excited. There wasn't much info, and we were almost wondering if it was a touch sensitive button on it.

What we got though was a mouse which gave you RSI any time you clicked the right button.

Now, I have a Mac Studio. Every PC has the power button on the top or front. This guy? Nah, lets put it on the back! And the M2 is a professional machine, so lets ship with 8GB ram only.. And MAKE IT SHARED VIDEO MEMORY!

And lets stick an ARM chip with no raytracing on it, because thats what people crave

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is more like a "power button" in that case lol

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] aimizo@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Oh an Apple thread. More people angry at something they were never going to buy anyway.

I thought it was satire at first, because the magic mouse has a charging port on the bottom making it unusable when charging

Turns out its not 🤡

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 22 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

More like laughing at what they were not going to buy anyway.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm still laughing at the mouse you can't use while it's charging

[–] uis@lemm.ee 10 points 8 hours ago

True innovation tho. There was no other mouse you couldn't use while charging.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Excuse me. Some of us do buy Apple products. And there's nothing that comes close to the bargain price of the base model, so we laugh at it while buying it too.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I can get an I9 32gb 1Tb mini pc for under 500€. Where is the bargain?

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 31 points 14 hours ago

excellent marketing strategy to get us talking about their stuff that would otherwise get almost completely under our radar.

i mean fuck where the power button of a product ill probably never need is.

[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 54 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Guess the Magic Mouse design team was getting bored

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