Re: Power Button Question

Dudley Henriques <dhenriques@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Thanks. What I was concerned about was whether or not, if the power 
> button was pushed, the system would immediately go into a power shutdown
> or throw up a dialog box asking what to do.
> I finally tried it after reading all the answers here. On the Macbook
> Pro with Leopard, pu****ng the power button does indeed throw you a 
> dialog box asking whether you are sure you want to shut down the system,
> so this in effect answers my fears about what would happen if my wife
> accidentally pushed the button, forgetting to shut down properly.
> The dialog box gives you a chance to cancel the function, sleep the 
> computer, or shut it down.
> I guess the only additional thing I really need to know at this point is
>   if you choose to shut down the computer from this dialog box; is the
> shutdown a normal shutdown as though you shut down starting with the 
> apple icon drop down menu??
>  From what I've been reading, if you choose "shutdown" at that point,
> it's the same thing as pulling the plug????????????????????

I don't have my Macs configured this way (I have the option set that
makes the power button sleep instead of) so I can't check for sure, but
I'm fairly sure that's wrong. I would expect that to be a normal
shutdown.

It is the hold-the-power-button-for-4-seconds thing that is essentially
like pulling the plug.

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