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> In Mavericks, pushing that power button automatically puts the computer to sleep, no questions asked.

Wtf, really? That was one of the features I used to show as a sensible difference between mac and PC... that a windows pc will just shut down your computer if you mistakenly touch the power button while handling it, whilst a mac wouldn't...

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What happens when you press the power button is configurable in windows, and I would guess that by default it shuts down on a desktop and sleeps on a laptop.

The problem here is that Apple put the power button above the delete button and you end up sleeping your computer very often just because you miss the delete key.

It's not as bad. No work data is lost since it's just a sleep. Cycling back to working mode takes ~2s + the time to enter the password if you have a screen lock.

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