Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips

Putting aside your inability to speak to anyone without assuming they're stupid, enlighten me — what is that command? As far as I can find, there is none for a Mac desktop. There's a one-liner terminal command for laptops, but it doesn't work on the mini. Which brings us back to what I said earlier, your observations are out of place as you're not someone who uses macOS on a desktop.

Anyway, I'd be happy to admit I'm wrong and learn from you if you have a solution for this, because this is something I do care about.
Mine has stopped getting updates for last 4 years. If yours is recent, the mapping is changed few years ago. A click will put it to sleep, long press will prompt to shutdown and hard long press will force shutdown. If yours too is old, you can enable tap to sleep from energy saver settings or you can try pmset.
 
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Code:
➜  ~ pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 disksleep            0
 powernap             1
 womp                 1
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                0 (sleep prevented by powerd, coreaudiod)
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 tcpkeepalive         1
 autorestart          1
 standby              0
 displaysleep         15

Code:
➜  ~ pmset -g cap
Capabilities for AC Power:
 displaysleep
 disksleep
 sleep
 womp
 autorestart
 standby
 powernap
 ttyskeepawake
 tcpkeepalive

Power management features are different for desktops and laptops, I guess. Despite Sleep On Power Button being enabled, it doesn't work. That's probably a carry-over from when I migrated my settings/data from my Macbook Pro to this M1 mini.

But thanks anyway, I didn't know about pmset.
 
Putting aside your inability to speak to anyone without assuming they're stupid, enlighten me — what is that command? As far as I can find, there is none for a Mac desktop. There's a one-liner terminal command for laptops, but it doesn't work on the mini. Which brings us back to what I said earlier, your observations are out of place as you're not someone who uses macOS on a desktop.

Anyway, I'd be happy to admit I'm wrong and learn from you if you have a solution for this, because this is something I do care about.



To those who have a M4 now, how does it hold up under load? @superczar @y2s @ibose and anyone else I might have missed, my M1 regularly sees 100C under load and it's sitting in the normal position, even elevated off the desk:
Seems high for a M1 - checked the vents?

On this one, I Havent mucked around much yet but What does a heavy load mean for you?
Games like RE: Village and CP2077 had it hovering around 70 while idle is around 40-45

In contrast, my MBA M1 does around 35C idle and 75-80 under load
 
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Code:
➜  ~ pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 disksleep            0
 powernap             1
 womp                 1
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                0 (sleep prevented by powerd, coreaudiod)
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 tcpkeepalive         1
 autorestart          1
 standby              0
 displaysleep         15

Code:
➜  ~ pmset -g cap
Capabilities for AC Power:
 displaysleep
 disksleep
 sleep
 womp
 autorestart
 standby
 powernap
 ttyskeepawake
 tcpkeepalive

Power management features are different for desktops and laptops, I guess. Despite Sleep On Power Button being enabled, it doesn't work. That's probably a carry-over from when I migrated my settings/data from my Macbook Pro to this M1 mini.

But thanks anyway, I didn't know about pmset.
My Mini is intel mini and I used to reset SMC. Never had to bother about this after moving to M2 MacBook. Play around with pmset and also see if there is a way to reset power profiles to get the default behavior to work.

Coming to snapping and snipping and restoring, try Moom and BetterTouchTool. RectanglesPro works to an extent. I am using rectangles pro as I am using MBP but it does not have option to bring the arrangement back on reboot. Moom will remember the layout and bring ti back. Not ready to pay for Moom as I already paid for rectnagles and for me, it barely takes a minute to set the arrangement back on reboot (single 32" display).
 
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