Tim Apple: We are unique. We do in-house industrial design for all of our computers and iToys that you love. Everything is shiny and tiny, and we think you are going to love it.
User: Buys a new M4 Mac Mini but notices the power button is at the bottom.
User: I solved the power button problem:
@nixCraft for memory at least this makes sense; by putting RAM in the SoC they get *much* more bandwidth than they could with SODIMMs. The M4 Max Mini has roughly the same bandwidth as 6 DDR5-5600 channels, or about 3x any non-workstation/non-server PC. There's no way they could fix the pins for 6 DDR5 channels into a cheap package, much less room for the DIMMs themselves without doubling the size of the computer.
SSD: that's just Apple being Apple.
nixCraft 🐧
Scott Laird