Two Seconds to Sleep
Ivan | Thu, 2006-07-06 14:33Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Apple-Alt-Eject (Command-Option and then hold the Eject button) for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that.
Read this and similar tips on the Apple Pro tips page.
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If you want to shutdown right away then do the same thing but also hold down ctrl. This will shutdown your computer super fast!
I saw the subject of this post, Ivan, and thought you were referring to your new bundle of joy (Apple). :)
Good tip... And I do hope you guys are getting some rest.
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I wish man!
I had just read that a little while ago and was going to post the hint a couple weeks back on there that pertains to us designers:
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/badfonts.html
why not just press the power button? holding it down shuts it off completely.
If you press it once it'll take the system to stand by as well. Although not a common task, but command + ctrl + eject reboots the system. Now we have all three! :)
Pushing the poer button until the computer shutsdown is like a reset. You will also loose all unsaved documents and will take longer time to restart
I can confirm this doesn't seem to work with my 3rd party Logitech keyboard. I don't have an eject button, so I have one assigned to the task and it doesn't work. Is there some workaround, or will it only work with the Apple keyboard?
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