As someone who has to use heavy/taped-on little toys to cover the power buttons on my PCs or else my cat invariably opens a shutdown dialog in the middle of something… Thank you.

Wait, WHAT?

They put the powerbutton on the underside?

For fuck sake Apple...

This could be a nice little computer if it had good linux support

design consistent with the Magic Mouse

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

I wonder how many people will just have the thing upside down?

So many people referring to using the button to turn the computer off, but more than 95% of the time, you use the OS to turn a computer off. It’s only when there’s a malfunction you would need to turn it off with a hardware button.

This button is primarily for turning the computer on.

I’m not really trying to come to Apple’s defense here as they don’t need it, but everyone reacting as though this is as bad as or worse than the mouse charging port seems to be ignoring the fact that most computers nowadays don’t need to be manually turned off or on with any level of frequency. People will push this button like once or twice a month I imagine. I don’t see why that’s the end of the world.

Assuming you mount it on the back of something that would probably be a pretty good place.

I use a lot of mini Linux computers and mount them to the back of monitors. I could see this design being perfect for that except it's way more expensive lol

So they created more vertical space on the case, which would be a perfect spot for a power button - or even more ports… and then didn’t use it.

True to form, if I’m honest.

That aside, I love that they’re getting rid of the idiotic 8GB baseline spec.

I'm not going to get a mac anytime soon, but at least it would stop my cat from powering down everything spontaneously

At least they didn't put the fucking power port on the bottom.

Apparently there is a button on the keyboard, so you get to buy an Apple keyboard (I guess that is bundled?) and don't get to use your own keyboard with it.

Why can't they put the power button on the front where it belongs. It's already stupid that they put it on the back, putting it on the bottom is downright idiotic. If they don't want to mess up the oh so important Apple aesthetic just make it an invisible touch button or something. Apple hates usability.