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Sunday, January 8, 2006
One thing I’ve never quite understood was Apple’s lack of a power light indicator on its PowerBook. When I turn on a PC notebook, I know if my button press activated the computer or not because I immediately see a green light on the laptop somewhere come on. With the PowerBook, if I’m lucky, I will hear the startup sound. But when on a plane, as I am now writing this, I can’t hear it for the life of me. Holding in the button does not good either because that will actually cycle the unit on and off. Ugh. Why is there no power light?
Will the Intel based laptop line from Apple be where things change? Will there power lights? Will there be gaudy stickers all over my palm rest? I don’t know about the latter but I sure hope the former is true. I’ve been waiting to get a new laptop (and I’ve been looking at HP’s line of multimedia units) but will wait it out a few more months in hopes the PowerBook gets an Intel chip next Tuesday.
I love my PowerBook (dislike my Dell) and look forward to getting a new PowerBook…with a light.
January 8th, 2006 at 14:55
Maybe it’s because a lot of us never turn off our computer? I restart it now and then when I have to do a software update, but otherwise, it’s pretty rare. I’m currently on 6 days since my last restart, and that includes a trip to Chicago. Closing the lid puts it to sleep, opening it awakens it right away. No real need to shut it down.
January 8th, 2006 at 20:43
Possible, but they make you turn it off on the plane during take off and landing. So, in my case, I had to.