Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV

Mac Mini's are cool, and I appreciate that Apple has some of the most experienced and talented designers in the world... But they put the power switch on the bottom. You have to lift it up and turn it over to turn it on and off.

Most, if not all, Apple devices look almost exactly the same as their sibling devices.

Well, it would be

• more confusing if they shaped it like an iPhone,
• more unstable if they shaped it like the magic mouse with the power port at the bottom,
• super cute if they kept the exact mac pro tower design but super smol,
• actually useful as a vase of they used that cylinder mac pro design from 10 years ago

Implying Mac Minis haven't looked like Apple TVs from the beginning?

Mac Mini (2005-2009):

Apple TV (1^st gen, 2007):

Mac Mini (2010, first redesign after Apple TV came out):

The price of the storage upgrades. Jesus.

It's kinda cute

I mean.. It looks like the other Mac minis so... Okay.

Would it be so hard to get dual power supplies and a rack mount?

Would rather buy a Beelink SER7.

With the 10G NIC upgrade, I would see some use in this if it ran Linux

That doesn’t seem very good for the price.

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Meanwhile... Apple TV stuck in stone age and still can't do bitstream.