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.
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.