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I'm on my fourth or fifth mac notebook and all the others had the power button well away from the keyboard. I also remember my uncle's Apple II with the reset

I'm on my fourth or fifth mac notebook and all the others had the power button well away from the keyboard. I also remember my uncle's Apple II with the reset key in the upper right next to backspace that he eventually pried off and put a bottle cap over the switch to keep from pressing it accidentally.

chiph 13y ago
In later revisions they added a stronger spring underneath the button to prevent unintended resets. I had a II+ with it back in high school (48k RAM, dual floppy drives, 80-column card -- I was the envy of all my friends!) I'm wondering if a plastic fence around the button can be made to act as a guard. Or perhaps a modern equivalent of your uncle's bottle-cap, with a small hole where you could insert the tip of a house key or a pen to activate the button.