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.
I had a Mac mini and it’s part of why I’ll never buy another Mac. Because it was just absurdly slow. I knew it wouldn’t be a normal desktop but Jesus it had performance issues all the time. My Plex server on it was pretty unreliable too.Edit: my bad, my experience is invalid and upsetting
As a repair tech I think the Mini is one of the most reliable computers made. A few models were underpowered if people bought low end versions, especially the 2014’s with 4GB memory and laptop hdds.
I think you just described my Mac mini, that’s around when I bought it. I can’t remember specifically what issues I had besides speed but it seems like it was issues booting and sleep mode having trouble
Yeah that was a lemon. New one seems good though.
Interesting to note. Unfortunately for apple I decided that going back to building my own desktops is far superior, especially these days. Hardware seems to have gotten really easy to deal with and more reliable than ever before. Honestly I think a big part of the issues I had previously with built PCs was ASUS’s fault.
And Linux is freaking outstanding now. So I don’t have to deal with windows either :)
I don’t think your experience is invalid, it’s just that you’re in the apple_enthusiast community so maybe people just don’t want to hear it?
The rest of Lemmy will happily share in your Apple hatred and pile on with their own complaints, would it be alright if you left this little corner for us?
Well the name of the community that shows prominently in my client is just “Apple” but in any case there isn’t a “used_to_like_apple_a_lot_then_realized_its_overrated” community. I think sharing an experience about an apple product on a complaint post about that product makes sense. Others in the thread seem to have thought the same.
To be fair, it was a pretty vague anecdote with dubious relevancy. If someone joined the Hyundai community and said commented on the 2024 Elantra thread that they hate the Elantra because their 2002 Elantra broke down, they’d probably get downvoted too.
Apple has been making the Mac mini for 20 years, across 3 different processor architectures and 3 different body styles. With no details or timeframe, your anecdote is pretty pointless.
If you’re at all curious, the M4 Mini benches absurdly high for a computer of its size & power draw, and is one of the best performance per dollar products that Apple has ever put out according to pretty much all reviews. So you might give it another go if your entire opinion of the product line is based on an i3 Mac Mini you owned 10+ years ago.
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