Colossus: Do you have an off switch?
DeadPool: Maybe it’s next to the prostate…or is that the on switch.
“There are 206 bones in the human body - 207 if I’m watching Gossip Girl”
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Why do you need it in a cradle? Just get some Velcro on the top of that bad boy and on the underside of your desk. Voila.
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On a side note…do all you guys regularly turn off your computers? I do because it’s a laptop that I move around from place to place, but the IT guys I know never do. One said he hasn’t turned off his computer in 7 years. Kind of like some of the audiophiles I know with their amps/receivers, and I am with the ceiling fan on my back patio.
I haven’t voluntarily turned off my Mac mini in years. It has been rebooted when updating the OS and then there is the ever-reliable Texas grid, but I just don’t think about it otherwise and have never had to.
I never do. Just close the lid and stuff it in my bag. It goes to sleep but not off. Like @Limey, it gets the occasional reboot when updating but that’s about it.
I’ve got a bit of OCD in me and am an energy conservation nerd, so I always turn off my office desktop and work laptop at the end of the day.
At work, I sometimes have to use desktops in shared space and I always restart those at the start of my day because they seem to run better after clearing the caches from other user profiles. I generally restart that at the end of my day so that the next person starts clean, but I leave those on.
For our home shared laptop, my wife always leaves it on, and I always shut it down.
I also like to live dangerously.
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Hit me.
FWIW, Apple recommends NEVER turning off your Mac. The OS is designed to do as much self-maintenance and software updating as possible when “asleep”. Turning it off means that this stuff has to be done when the Mac is awake because you’re working on it, taking away processor and internet bandwidth.
I presume that WinPCs are the same.
Dang, the wife is right, again (and always). (Home laptop is Mac, work is all WinPC).
So then I have to ask…why do you even need a power button, let alone care where it’s located?
Because when the Texas grid shuts down, my Mac shuts down.
Does it not come back on when the power inevitably pops back on, licking split?
It does if you press the power button.
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I don’t think you want to have your computer connected directly to the grid without an on/off switch.
This is possible for both Windows PCs (in BIOS settings) and Macs (in the System Settings app), but is usually not the default behavior for each. On Macs the option is not too hard to find, whereas I would guess that the average PC user hasn’t ventured into BIOS settings once.
As an IT guy, people who turn their systems off are annoying.
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Don’t IT guys find people who aren’t IT guys annoying?
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The on/off switch is internal, whether you press the button or not. It’s just a software thing. I thought that was one of the things you Apple FanBoys raved about, that it restarted automatically after a power glitch.
As Waldo said, you can set it to do that. I used this when I hosted my movie library on my Mac, so that the server function was there after an unexpected outage. I don’t bother now because my movies are on a network server and the mini boots up in about 15 seconds.