May 21 2008
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Control, command: power
I got a panicked call from a friend of mine this morning. She couldn’t figure out how to get her newly-issued work MacBook Pro to wake up from sleep.
After doing a little troubleshooting, I said, “OK, it’s hung for some reason. We’re just going to have to reboot it.” So I told her to just force-restart it and it would be fine.
She spent a few seconds clicking, and then said, “It’s not working.”
The verdict, after several confused minutes of cross-conversation: Ctrl-Cmd-Power is no more. I hadn’t given this a moment’s thought until now, but she used to force-reset her aluminum PowerBook that way. Now, the only way to do it (that I know of) is to hold down the power button.
When did this go away?