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New Mac Mini M4
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quovadis
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Hehe it is odd. I wonder if they'll have a keyboard power on using the touchid?
SauRoNZA
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I mean it will definitely wake with mouse or keyboard, not sure about turning on.
I think it’s just Apple trying to get people to stop this archaic crap of shutting down Macs as if they were Windows machines.
quovadis
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I'm guessing it's somewhere inbetween. Studio Displays don't have power buttons so might just be that there's an ultra efficient sleep/off mode and the power button is for a hard reboot/forced.
SauRoNZA
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Exactly.
Mac Mini M2 used 1W in sleep mode. There was never any reason to turn it off.
quovadis
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Very keen to see what's in store for the Mac Studio and if there's any value overlap now since this tiny thing maxes out at a M4 Pro chip with 14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, 64GB ram, 8TB of storage, and 10gbit ethernet. The wifi is still 6E and TB5 ports are only on theM4 Pro chip versions.
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quovadis
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It is odd = where it is. I was commenting on if the keyboard Touch ID would just double as the "power button" like on a MacBook.
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defsec
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Planning on trading in my MacBook Pro M2 Pro and ordering a maxed out Mac Mini M4 Pro. My MacBook has never left my desk anyway, so a desktop with extra memory just makes more sense. Let’s hope Core pricing is decent.
quovadis
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Hehe gotta love the internet... 
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No touch id? Disappointed
This is going to be one of those things where the internet goes wild but Apple probably knows like 90% of its Mac users don't use the power button all that much. In fact the only time I use mine is when there is a hard reboot required...and I've maybe used it once in the last 6 months
SauRoNZA
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Precisely this, they have the data they know exactly.
Same way I expect this new Camera button to go the way of the Touch Bar within a couple of generations, because they'll see nobody cares.
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Pre-orders are live on Macnificent. Pricing looks good, but no option for the M4 Pro chip with more cores.
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The base model for R13500 is really decently priced but lol Apple trying to gouge people R4500 for the extra 256GB if you go with 512GB storage, rather just get a 2TB thunderbolt external SSD for that money.Pre-orders are live on Macnificent. Pricing looks good, but no option for the M4 Pro chip with more cores.
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