Turning the PowerBook on and off

Your PowerBook can be in one of three power states: off, sleep, or on.

Off

When the PowerBook is off, the computer is not using any power or doing any work. The terms shut down and off both refer to this state.

Turn the computer off to

ninsert it into a PowerBook Duo Dock or Duo Dock II

nconnect it to a desktop Macintosh as a SCSI disk

nconserve power when you won’t be using it for several hours

To turn the PowerBook off

nIf the computer is on, choose the Shut Down command from the Special menu. (The Macintosh Basics tour teaches how to choose a menu command.)

nIf the computer is in sleep, wake it by pressing any key on the keyboard (except Caps Lock), and then choose Shut Down.

nIf a problem with the computer prevents you from choosing Shut Down, press the power button on the back panel of the computer. This turns off the power; it is not a graceful exit, because you will lose any work you did not save. Use the power button only in an emergency.

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Apple Duo 270C manual Turning the PowerBook on and off, Off, To turn the PowerBook off