Reply to post: Re: You're whinging about a 6.5 pound laptop?

Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy

the spectacularly refined chap

Re: You're whinging about a 6.5 pound laptop?

Now I have a little laptop which is very portable but has a tendency to glitch every so often, and needs a complete denial of electricity to sort it out. In the absence of a removable battery, all I can do is set it to one side for a few hours and wait for the battery to run flat.

Press and hold the power switch for at least four seconds. On desktop systems with ATX boards and power supplies the spec guarantees this causes a hardware power off equivalent to cutting the power. On laptops you don't have the same guarantee but I've yet to meet a machine from the last 25 years that didn't honour the same convention.

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