[brandonbica]

The primary use case of the power button is to power down the machine. Of all the times that the button is hit, how often is it hit with the intent of hitting the delete button? For me personally I would guess it's happened maybe once or twice in the couple of years I've had an Air.

So to me it seems like having to confirm that I want to shutdown after I hit the shutdown button, by either clicking or waiting, is a hurdle on the primary way the button is used. I can see that in the scenario posted that it is a "high impact" if you accidentally hit the power key, but overall the number of times that that happens must be low enough that bashing Apple's design decision has to be a little over the top.

[lostlogin]

How often do people use the power button versus accidentally hitting it? I'd say that my primary intentional use of that button is restarting the computer after hitting the button by mistake. Shutting down and powering up are rare activities for me. Edit: waking from sleep rather than powering up - however it is often I restart I am doing as the wake from sleep is flakey for some reason.