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The comment in the article is in the context of rack mounting them which is a common thing to do with Mac minis. Having it on the bottom makes it hard to press
by 00deadbeef 2y ago
The comment in the article is in the context of rack mounting them which is a common thing to do with Mac minis. Having it on the bottom makes it hard to press as you can’t lift them up when they’re secured in a mount.
- geerlingguy 2y agoExactly this. I am working on a solution to make it easier to hit the button from the front of a rack shelf, but the fact I have to mess with 3D printing just to hit a power button is silly. Older Macs also had the power button on the back, which was also annoying, but at least a Mac that's secured to a shelf could have its power button pressed pretty easily. The Mac mini _requires_ a mechanism to press up from the bottom in any permanent-ish install.
- macintux 2y agoSerious question: why not mount it upside down?
- initplus 2y agoI mean they aren't designed for rack mounting? It's a consumer product, likely <0.1% of units produced will end up in a rack.
- awiesenhofer 2y agoGenuine question: why not just use a managed pdu and be done with it? No need to even get up and go to the DC/Rack.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Having it on the bottom makes it hard to press as you can’t lift them up when they’re secured in a mount Hard rebooot is the only situation where you should be using the physical power button on a modern Mac. If you're installing Macs on a rack, presumably you can sudo shutdown -r. The button on the bottom is trying to tell you that the system is built to be well behaved on stand by.
- kalleboo 2y agoI would have thought that them being slightly higher than 1U would have precluded people from rack mounting them "flat" in the first place. It seems like it would be more efficient to rack mount them standing on their sides, and then the air gap between them would be enough to reach the power button easily.