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Re: 10.9.3 Oddity

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Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> writes:

> In article <230520141344276660%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <220520141821521123%otto@bogus.address.com>, Otto Pylot
> > <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Finally upgraded my 2011 MB Air (10.7.5), 4GB memory to Mavericks.
> > > Upgrade went very smoothly and took about 2 hours to download, install,
> > > and optimize. Only one app was incompatible so that's not bad.
> > > 
> > > The oddity is that when I press the Power button to shutdown, I have to
> > > hold it in for about 6 seconds before the dialog box appears. Under
> > > 10.7.5, just touching the power button resulted in the dialog box
> > > appearing. Also, the response of the dock seems to be slow. Once the
> > > dock has been activated once, the response is fast. My imagination or
> > > what?
> > 
> > No, it's a "feature" that was altered in the new version of Mac OS X. 
> > 
> > Holding down the power button for a "short" time puts the computer to
> > sleep.
> > 
> > Holding down the button for a "medium" time starts the shutdown process.
> > 
> > Holding the button down for a "long" time performs a forced reboot.
> 
> I see. Thanks.

Where short, medium and long are about 1, 3 and 5 seconds, respectively,
and where "starts the shutdown process" means bring up a dialog box
asking you what you want to do, and "performs a forced reboot" means
turns the power off immediately (without a clean shutdown).

Martin

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10.9.3 Oddity Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-22 18:21 -0700
  Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-23 13:44 +1200
    Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-22 19:18 -0700
      Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-05-23 02:00 -0700
        Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2014-05-23 10:46 -0700
        Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-24 09:58 +1200
    Re: 10.9.3 Oddity thewildrover@me.com (Andy) - 2014-05-24 14:53 +0100
      Re: 10.9.3 Oddity Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-25 09:47 +1200

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