Apple putting power button in hard to reach places...
On the iMac they have the power button on left backside of the base (duh everyone already knows that). Also on the new eMac the put the power button on the far end of the right side. Why would they put it there especially when it's geared towards kids/education? Unless maybe they don't want the little 3rd graders messing with the power button...? 
It just seems like they keep putting it in akward places instead of easy to access places.

It just seems like they keep putting it in akward places instead of easy to access places.
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<strong>No I have a Power Mac. I only turn it off when I go to sleep. The rest of the time I put it in sleep mode if I'm not using it for awhile.
Why do you shut your Power Mac down when you go to sleep? Why are you even using the Power button to shut it down?
<strong>Apple is phasing out power buttons, and the need for them.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, there might be a need to turn it ON sometime.
Really though, it's nothing to run a hand around the left side of the iMac and hit that switch. It's not hard at all...
It will be part of X.2 and from then of the hardware buttons won´t work.
BTW he told me that X.2 plans are running smooth. They have made the feed back process much better. When something bad happens X.2 sends a mail to Apple and they haven´t recieved any. So that obvious means X.2 is perfect and ready to ship...
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I completely turn off my Power Mac and turn off the powerstrip when I'm not going back on it for... 14.5 hours (that is going to bed at midnight and getting home from school at 2:30p.m.) . I think it's pointless to leave it on sleep for that long when no one will be using it for that long. And I don't even think you CAN use the power button to turn it off when it automatically powers off after you select shutdown. I use the power button to put it into sleep, to wake it from sleep, and to turn it ON. /rant
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I completely turn off my Power Mac and turn off the powerstrip when I'm not going back on it for... 14.5 hours (that is going to bed at midnight and getting home from school at 2:30p.m.) . I think it's pointless to leave it on sleep for that long when no one will be using it for that long. And I don't even think you CAN use the power button to turn it off when it automatically powers off after you select shutdown. I use the power button to put it into sleep, to wake it from sleep, and to turn it ON. /rant
OS X does some matienence in the middle of the night so that's one reason to leave it on.
As for the power button location, I don't know about an eMac, but on the iMac, it's in back on the left, real easy to do a reach-around to turn it on or off. I would have to agree with the poster who thinks Apple should have kept the power button on the keyboard, it was the piggy's tit when it came to accessibility. I never understood why the power button got axed from teh keyboard, except maybe to cut costs? <shrug>
<strong>All Apple needs to do is put the powerbutton back on the keyboard where it belongs. It was very convenient and Mac-like!.................................</strong><hr></blockquote>
From what an ex-coworker told me... having the "Power Button" on the keyboard somehow doesn't comply with USB Standards... apparently having it on the keyboard messed-up a LOT of USB peripherals in development and the companies constantly complained to Apple.
Don't take this as fact... it's just what I was told.
- Scott
<strong>For a school environment you can schedule computers to go to sleep after a period of inactivity...sleep-mode doesn't use much power at all. You'd probably waste more resources in order to remind everybody to shut-down their computers.
The question is how much power is used when either in sleep-mode or powered-off but plugged in? Most importantly, does the savings in electricity translate into real savings for the school district, company, consumer, or place of higher education? Assume that all of the above except for consumers will choose savings over convenience if it is worthwhile.
On a side note, I used to leave my B&W G3 in sleep mode until waking up from it left my computer considerably slower!
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<strong>Why would you NOT turn your PowerMac off at night? I had a G4 tower in my room for 2 years+ and every time I would leave the thing in sleep mode it would sound like there was a freight train running through the middle of my room.</strong><hr></blockquote>
After a while I'm sure you'dd get used to it. When I sometimes leave my Firewire HD on it's really loud but I've adjusted to it. After a little getting used to it it shouldn't be that bad.