For a membrane keyboard it was LOUD to the point my brother pushed me so hard to use a ‘quieter keyboard’ that my old one ‘disappeared mysteriously’ forcing me to get another. I did have to hand it to the keyboard durability though. It survived a good 10+ years of use with regular maintenance.
As a cat owner I can completely relate with the power/sleep buttons. This was during a time when sleep mode often resulted in the system hardlocking during waking and resulting in completely breaking your session with an ill fated “hold 5 seconds to force ACPI shutdown” routine. It was such an egregiously poor decision for an extended feature I still wonder why it existed on the keyboard.
On the flip side, the keyboard did support KBPO [keyboard power-on] so that may be the partial reason for the power button.
For a membrane keyboard it was LOUD to the point my brother pushed me so hard to use a ‘quieter keyboard’ that my old one ‘disappeared mysteriously’ forcing me to get another. I did have to hand it to the keyboard durability though. It survived a good 10+ years of use with regular maintenance.
As a cat owner I can completely relate with the power/sleep buttons. This was during a time when sleep mode often resulted in the system hardlocking during waking and resulting in completely breaking your session with an ill fated “hold 5 seconds to force ACPI shutdown” routine. It was such an egregiously poor decision for an extended feature I still wonder why it existed on the keyboard.
On the flip side, the keyboard did support KBPO [keyboard power-on] so that may be the partial reason for the power button.