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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    You can only assume they believe that people won’t want to use that button much.

    For a lot of people that’s surely a mistaken assumption, but in my case it would be pretty true.

    I use an old macbook pro from work as my permanent desktop, in a closed configuration under the desk. Sometimes I sleep it, but I don’t ever turn it off. I only ever need the power button when something has gone wrong.

    But they could have just put the button on the back. Kinda silly.

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      2 months ago

      I still think the apple should be the power button. Would’ve been a baller move on their part.

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          Power button is already on a flex cable, could have put it anywhere really.

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            Yes, but it’s a flex cable that doesn’t get in the way. If you moved it to the top, you would have to deal with it when accessing the cmos, fan, ssd, etc.