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Q: The Heck Power Button of Macbook Pro

I hate the default behavior of the power button. It puts my Mac to sleep WITHOUT confirmation!

The power button is so near to the Delete key and the F12 key. I often miss-touch the power button when I didn't intend to.

Sometimes I have to use a Windows PC. I used to clear the character after the cursor with the Del key. I brought this habbit to Macbook Pro and miss-hitted the power button. So, the result is, my Mac's screen turned black before I even had a change to understand what was happening.

 

The evil power button of Macbook Pro!

 

Are there any guys have the same concern with me?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Dec 21, 2013 1:11 AM

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  • by PlotinusVeritas,Helpful

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Dec 21, 2013 1:15 AM in response to yingxu
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    Dec 21, 2013 1:15 AM in response to yingxu

    Yes, the new operation of the power button works this way

     

    http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1q9dmc/mavericks_power_key_behavior/cdaou xw

     

     

    Answer courtesy of:  Tuttle

     

    workaround still not present

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5869?viewlocale=en_US

     

     

    Peace

     

     

  • by Courcoul,Helpful

    Courcoul Dec 21, 2013 1:37 AM in response to yingxu
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    Dec 21, 2013 1:37 AM in response to yingxu

    Welcome to the weird and wacky world of Mavericks. Since Apple seems to think we all should have Retina MBPs by now, they also seem to think that a power button for turning the thing off or on is a quaint and obsolete vestige of the past.

  • by yingxu,

    yingxu yingxu Dec 21, 2013 1:43 AM in response to Courcoul
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    Dec 21, 2013 1:43 AM in response to Courcoul


    Courcoul wrote:

     

    the weird and wacky world of Mavericks.

    I agree.

    Maybe Apple treats the Macbook as an iPad or iPhone and the power button should give the same user experience.

  • by PlotinusVeritas,

    PlotinusVeritas PlotinusVeritas Dec 21, 2013 1:46 AM in response to yingxu
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    Dec 21, 2013 1:46 AM in response to yingxu

    depends on HOW you type too, I personally could NEVER hit it accidentally

     

    but not everyone types the same way.

     

     

    as such.     No resolution currently.

  • by Jason @ Velocity Productions,

    Jason @ Velocity Productions Jason @ Velocity Productions Dec 24, 2013 8:52 AM in response to yingxu
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    Dec 24, 2013 8:52 AM in response to yingxu

    Same issue here, I am a production manager for a live events audio/video company and we all just upgraded to retina mbp's recently. We have had issues with people going to turn the audio up and hitting the power button accidentally at the same time during presentations and the screen going blank. Wish there was at least an option to turn the functionality back to the "What do you want to do" menu when you hit the power button.


    Horrible issue.

  • by Droxos,

    Droxos Droxos Dec 26, 2013 10:25 AM in response to yingxu
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    Dec 26, 2013 10:25 AM in response to yingxu

    I agree. I accidentally press the power button when pressing backspace and it interupts music streaming and shuts down. They should set  a 1.5s delay for it to go to sleep meaning no reaction on a shorter press and everything should be fine. An iPhone/iPad atleast does not shut down the connection when you shut down the screen so it is not behaving the same on all platforms. 

     

    Engineers at its worst.. My old macbook pro with the power button not within the keyboard was a much better solution. Great example on when minimalism turns bad..

  • by yingxu,

    yingxu yingxu Dec 26, 2013 5:05 PM in response to Droxos
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    Dec 26, 2013 5:05 PM in response to Droxos

    The power button turned your Mac off? That's even more horrible...

    By default, it put my Mac to sleep, but didn't shut it down.

  • by yingxu,

    yingxu yingxu Dec 26, 2013 5:16 PM in response to Jason @ Velocity Productions
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    Dec 26, 2013 5:16 PM in response to Jason @ Velocity Productions

    Because the power button locates in the keyboard and appears as a normal key as other ordinary keys.

    For your case, the Vol UP key is so near to the power key.

    But I think the worst case is when cleaning the keyboard: when you clean it with the Mac sleep, you may wake it up with any keys; when you clean it with the Mac running, you may put it to sleep with the power key; when you clean it with the Mac off, you may also turn it on because you cannot remove the battery ...