[aehaas]

I just got a dual 1.8. I put my box under my desk to the right, somewhat out of reach. It seems that I must get over to it to start the machine with the button up front. Is there no way to start this thing from the keyboard?

aehaas

[Leonard]

Nope, you have to use the power button on the front. It's been like that for a few years.

[-Q-]

Can't you turn on the machine if you have an Apple display? Doesn't that power button work to activate the machine? I want to say I read that somewhere, but I can't find it.

And no, there hasn't been a power button on the keyboard for years.

[AU_student_iceBook]

Originally posted by -Q-:
Can't you turn on the machine if you have an Apple display? Doesn't that power button work to activate the machine? I want to say I read that somewhere, but I can't find it.

And no, there hasn't been a power button on the keyboard for years.

YES, the powerbutton on an Apple Display will turn on the computer.

[Thinine]

Just don't turn your machine off. Let it sleep if you want to conserve power/noise/heat.

[Boochie]

I quite liked the feature of power-on with the keyboard.

Note that you can still power-off with the keyboard: control-alt-command-eject.

[Turnpike]

alt? where you from, boy? PC land?

and I agree with Thinine... just let it sleep when you want it to be quiet. that's what I do, unless there is a storm or something.

[Vader’s Pinch of Death]

Who shuts the computer down anyway?

[Turnpike]

My sister shuts her computer down. She got a dualie 1.25 a while ago and has been doing everything she can to make it mimic her Performa 6116

Some people live in the past.

Also, if you were paranoid about power fluctuations zapping your RAM or something, maybe?

[AngryAngel]

Originally posted by Boochie:
I quite liked the feature of power-on with the keyboard.

Note that you can still power-off with the keyboard: control-alt-command-eject.

Also, control-eject will bring up the shutdown/restart dialogue as if you had pressed the start-up key on a keyboard that has one.

[scottiB]

Originally posted by Vader’s Pinch of Death:
Who shuts the computer down anyway?

I need to unfortunately. I have a FW800 card in my DP800 G4 that doesn't support deep sleep. Drives me nuts at night, so I power it down (that and my FW RAID case--its fan is loud, too). Doesn't bother me that much since 10.3.3 boots extremely quickly.

[tooki]

Originally posted by Turnpike:
My sister shuts her computer down. She got a dualie 1.25 a while ago and has been doing everything she can to make it mimic her Performa 6116

Some people live in the past.

Also, if you were paranoid about power fluctuations zapping your RAM or something, maybe?

Any surge powerful enough to damage the computer in any way would do that damage whether it was powered on or not. (By the way, it'd be the power supply that got damaged -- it's its job to output clean power to the components, and usually it will sacrifice itself before anything else gets damaged.)

tooki

[dwood]

if you want remote power on, doesn't the powermate support that?

[Big Mac]

Apple axed keyboard power-on after the first USB keyboards (like the ones that came with the first generation iMac). The change was apparently due to a limitation of the USB implementation and probably due to the fact that USB isn't as integrated with the logic board as ADB was. One rationale explaining the feature's removal was that it was unreliable when keyboards were connected to hubs - that seemed like a weak explanation to me. Interestingly, Apple has gone this route (removing keyboard power) on and off in the course of Mac history; perhaps sometime in the future we'll see it added back. Now that I think about it, I wonder if older USB keyboards would be able to power contemporary machines. . .

[Leonard]

Originally posted by dwood:
if you want remote power on, doesn't the powermate support that?

Read this dwood http://www.griffintechnology.com/sup...te/PM-001.html

So the answer for a G5 is no the Powermate doesn't support it.

[DeathToWindows]

Originally posted by Turnpike:
My sister shuts her computer down. She got a dualie 1.25 a while ago and has been doing everything she can to make it mimic her Performa 6116

that's a hell of a jump...