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The Mac Mini’s great grandfather, the G4 Mac Cube, had a motion sensing power button placed on top. If “astonishing” is what they were going for, they nailed it
by dumpsterdiver 2y ago
The Mac Mini’s great grandfather, the G4 Mac Cube, had a motion sensing power button placed on top. If “astonishing” is what they were going for, they nailed it. Reaching for a paper on your desk? Astonished. And of course you’d have to fend off jokester friends waving their hands around like madmen.
Edit: searching online I’m seeing that apparently it wasn’t a motion sensor? So maybe it was vibration or light contact (with clothes, etc) that caused it? For context, ours even started having phantom power downs that I assumed were from the power button, so it may have just been a failing component.
- abruzzi 2y agoI think it was capacitive touch button. There was no physical button movement, and a light came on when touched. I never had issues with mine. I actually still have the cube, including the original speakers, keyboard, and mouse that came with it. I haven't powered it on in years.
- dumpsterdiver 2y agoI was just reading other accounts online about the power button sensitivity, and I was indeed in a high static environment (extremely cold and dry in winter (Arctic), carpeted floors) which appears to be a common factor in those reports. That seems like a reasonable explanation for what I observed.