At 2:10 AM -0400 8/20/01, vvor wrote:
>Why do Macs' off buttons become useless sometimes? Eventually, I am reduced
>to squatting down and reaching behind this completely frozen machine,
>groping for the plug, pulling it, and trying to get it back in those stupid
>holes without taking my whole workstation apart and throwing my hips into
>psiatic hell. Why doesn't the power button work? Is it damaging to pull the
>plug?
Isn't this annoying! I almost never bother bending over far enough to
see if that button will work; it won't. Pulling plug from wall works
best.
No, pulling the plug won't hurt things more than restarting a crashed
machine. Obviously, a healthy machine should be shutdown instead of
physically turned off.
>In that vein, why do manufacturer's NOT put power buttons on things? My
>scanner doesn't have a power switch. You have to unplug it. Now THAT's
>ergonomic design.
Buttons are expensive. Just compare today's T.V. (today's anything)
with one from fifteen to twenty years ago. Less buttons. All the
buttons are on the remote (cheap buttons).
My scanner's the same. No power button. Zip drive, no power button.
_
Andrew
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