My old 2013 Macbook Pro keyboard has power as just a regular button, in the corner. While it does not power down on one quick poke, the system will completely shut down without having a prompt answered if held down.
This would be fine, except that one of our cats loves keyboards, very deliberately hopping up on laptops and settling right in. She has a knack for finding the key that is most likely to cause mischief. (Power, WiFi, whatever)
Brian Lowe brian2@groupbcl.ca writes:
I saw this on another forum. A hospital somewhere in the US ordered a dozen HP laptops for some physicians and nurses. When they arrived, they discovered the "Power On/Off" button is shaped like just another keyboard key and is located in the top row. Immediately to the left of the Delete Key. And just above the Backspace key.
And Insert? It's the fifth key to the left of Delete, on the F10 key. To its right are F11 (which also has a glyph of a jet aircraft on it), F12/Dual Screen Mode, Prt Scr, the aforementioned Power Off button, and Delete.
The person who posted the message says the Power button instantly shuts down the system when it's pressed, although I suspect this functionality can be changed in Windows. However, it's the only power button on the device so they can't simply disable it.
Who the hell designs this crap?
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