On 8 feb 2010, at 23.07, Trent Anderson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
We are putting Mac Mini's into lecture theatres and the power switch
is not really accessible. Does anyone know of any remote, or usb
power on/off solutions for Mac?
You can poer off a Mac via a keyboard shortcut. It is something like
ctrl + alt + cmd + eject. If that doesn't work try with one of the
three first keys left out. Like ctrl + cmd + eject or alt + cmd +
eject...
The problem is to power on again. The old iMacs and Blue Power Mac 3G
had a power switch on the keyboard. These old Macs is really cheap on
the second hand market these days. Less expensive than a new keyboard
actually which makes it reasonable to by one just for the sake of
using only the keyboard. The keyboards are the ones that came with the
stupid hockey puck mouse.
Check that the old keyboard works with a Mac mini first. You could
easily bring your mini to test this.
// John Stalberg
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