Hi just want to agree with shutting down the Mac well thats to say powering off the Mac. I know I am a windows user but I'm telling you all now whatever you do do not and I repeat do not, shut down your mac wwith the power button way! I say this because a few months ago my computer was being really slow and its only two years old and its the first time it happened. But with Jaws or something else my system would crash from time to time and jaws wouldn't respond so there for I had to hit the power button on my keyboard which was the only way to shut it down. And what happened well your right after time it just got slower and slower eventually crashing completly! So then I had to call out a technician and he took my computer and i'm asuming reinstalled everything. And I said to him that my computer just got slower and slower and I had to keep pressing the power button on my keyboard to make it shut down. Basicly in summary do not power off your computer weather a button is on the keyboard or on the computer of course not unless its a last thing. Otherwise you will be paying alot of money to someone who would be able to reinstall it. Frankly I wish microsoft would pervide a talking install I must admit that doing a reinstall of the Mac OS with a talking installer is ausum!
Daniel -------------------------------------------------- From: "Keith Reedy" <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:18 PM To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: shutting down a Mac
Hi folks,If you just want to shut down the MAC the fastest way I know of is, control-option-command-eject, witch is generally, on most keyboards, F13 and if you are using a laptop, use the FN key as well.Keith Reedy On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Ignasi Cambra wrote:That's not shutting down the computer. That's powering it off and you should probably not do it. It literally powers it off without shutting down the system. Unlike Windows, the mac will usually boot again with no trouble, but it's still not a good thing to do...On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:On an iMac, you can hold the power button down for approximately five seconds, maybe longer. Some people wouldn't recommend this, but I do it more times than not because up here in Alaska, we get power surges which require me to shut down the iMac as quickly as possible so I don't lose all my data I send to it. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Marcy Weinberg wrote: There is a faster way...Just press the power button if you own a laptop such as a macbook or macbook pro, then press the space bar to restart or the enter key to shut down.You can also tab around and you'll get sleep, sutdown, restart, or cancel.I can't say if this works on an iMac for example, as I own a macbook. Hope this helps! Marcy On Feb 2, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Mary Otten wrote:To shut down the Mac, press vo-m and arrow down the Apple menu until you hear it say shut down, then press enter. You get a dialogue that has the default choice of shut down. If there is a faster way, I'd love to know it. MaryClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverUsers can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverUsers can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
