In a TikTok with 1.3 million views, dog mom @monkeyandlucy’s MacBook rests on her lap. “Me bc my MacBook suddenly turned off one day and hasn’t turned back on since,” she shares in the text overlay.

We've long been impressed by Apple's Mac mini systems and its M-series silicon (see our M1 Mac mini review from 2020 for reference), but like anything else in the hardware space, issues can pop up.

With the 2016 Apple MacBook models came a feature called auto power-on that did what it says: turning on the MacBook as soon as the lid was opened. The feature also turned on the laptop whenever the ...