Apple KB Article: Power on your Apple product

It sounds funny but it reminded me of having to teach a 60-year old woman how to perform a few tasks on her PC... and start with the basics ("when you move the mouse upwards, the little arrow goes up")

I'll bet that the poor old dame is still trying to figure that one out!

The new Intel iMacs have the power button on the left side, as you're facing the screen; the pre-Intel iMacs have them on the right side. I'm always reaching for the wrong corners when I switch between them.

Is it just me or do they show the imac button on the wrong side? Mine is on the right of the computer when I sit looking at the screen.

I agree with the eMac complaint, a switcher friend of mine bought one a couple of years ago at my advice and for a minute or two once it was out of the box both of us scratched our heads trying to figure out how to make it start! Ugh, embarrassing...

Power on by keyboard used to be neat. I wasn't Mac native back in those days, but never had any trouble figuring out how to turn one on at school or college. A nice feature which needs to be brought back. At least it works for sleep though.

yes, there was a button there for power.

My theory: It was probably removed to appeal more to the switcher crowd (No offense to our brethren that had seen the light). Or it was deemed not necessary as their expected new user base is unaware of this functionality.

Truly sad as that feature was actually one of the greatest design concepts I have ever seen.

Sam asks a good question... I haven't thought about that in years! But I do remember turning on Macs by the keyboard... I think - it's been a really long time. Wasn't there a button in the top right corner where the Eject button now is?

Not news. I am dumping this RSS feed. Get someone else to click on your Google ads.

I used to work for a 100% PC web dev company that bought an eMac for a receptionist. Took us ages to figure out how to turn the damn thing on, why can't they just put the power button on the front?

Thanks for the picture. I've had this 1GHz TiBook sat at home for 3.5years now and never knew how to turn it on ;-?

Was this the kbase article given to the Work Experience kid to do?

does anyone know why in the world apple took out the ability to power on a Mac from the keyboard? that was probably the second greatest thing Macs had that PCs didn't!