Q: Powerbutton makes my Macbook Air go straight to sleep

Some users want to use the power button to sleep the computer, some users want to

use the sleep option from the Apple menu and others just want to close the lid

to sleep the computers. Choices, choices and choices.

Touch and hold the power button for a while for the dialog box to pop up.

Hold down the POWER button for about 3 secs or more and the options should become available.

If you just "tap/press" on it, believe it's just a display off mode.

I'm pretty sure it's screen off, at least for mine when I tested it.

Agree with you that Apple could have make it "less sensative".  Maybe use it as a boss/privacy key

I did a continuous ping and in the middle of it, pressed the power button ... screen turns off.  Then a couple of seconds later, pressed it again and screen turns on.  There was no interuption to the ping test.

Last login: Thu Oct 24 21:07:32 on ttys000

Alan:~ user$ ping 192.168.0.1

PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.167 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.367 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.289 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.250 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.801 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.533 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=3.226 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.376 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=3.204 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.480 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1.166 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.201 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=1.196 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1.370 ms

^C

--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---

14 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 0.0% packet loss

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.801/1.973/3.289/0.950 ms

I assure you that my air goes to sleep (turns off the display and the network and many other things - perhaps there is a depth of sleep option somewhere that I have not tried thet will leave the network up) - It is the single most annoying thing since Windows Metro to infect my life. The problem on the Air is that the power button is really close to the backspace (not so on a Mac Pro) - it is trivial to miss the backspace and hit the power and suddenly in the middle of productive work you are disconnected from everything - you have to re-estabish VPN connections, RDP sessions, VNC sessions, downloads, - everything you are doing comes tumbling down around you.

Please apple - at least let Air users disable this horrific option because of the power button proximity to backspace and ease of mistyping.

This is an extremely annoying change and I really hope apple adds an option to change power button functionality. I can verify that this puts the computer to sleep and does not just turn off the display which breaks connections.

Maybe the engineer who wrote the code for it was thinking of the iPhone ... Hey, the iPhone has a quick on/off button, why not make one on the Macbook as well

At least on the iPhone it doesn't kill my network connections when I put it to sleep.

Same thing here. And I *hate* this too.

Why isn't there an option for this? This ***** big time!

http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/use-your-macbooks-power-button-to-tu rn-off-its-display-in-mavericks/

Anyone tried leaving Power Nap option enabled to prevent disconnection (Network)?