The only theory I can think of is that when the newer Macs are
turned off there is no standby power on the USB port to keep the
keyboard powered.
Adding onboard battery and circuitry would add to the cost.
On Aug 6, 2005, at 5:33 AM, Stephen Jonke wrote:
On Aug 5, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Harry Freeman wrote:
So why in the heck did Apple leave the power-key off of the Pro
Keyboard. It's sort of Minor-Pro keyboard.
I'm not sure on this, but I have a couple theories on why they
dropped it. One is that perhaps supporting a power button on a USB
keyboard made the keyboards non-standard USB, so they eventually
dropped it in favor of the standard. Initially when they switched
to USB they did have a power button, but it was shortly after that
that they dropped it. The other theory is that they wanted to
promote the notion of Mac OS X not needing to be powered off
(instead put to sleep), and they felt that including the power
button on the keyboard countered that notion, so they dropped it.
Again, these are just theories. I don't actually know why they
dropped it.
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