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Laptop designers have grown adept at hiding or masking the power button. I’ve seen it on the side of older laptops, though to keep the computer from being turned on inside a briefcase, most manufacturers now put the power button inside the laptop, up near the lid hinge. Look for it there.

A tablet PC sports its power button on the device’s edge.

As a clue to finding the power button, look for the universal power button symbol, shown in the margin. This symbol appears on or near the power button, or not at all.

 Sometimes, the power button symbol is different from the circle/slash icon, shown in the margin: The symbol can be a solid dot, a line-and-a-circle for On and Off, respectively, or, occasionally, the crescent moon symbol.

 The power button may be a spring-slide switch that you must push in one direction and then release.

 Some power buttons are tiny push buttons, or what I call press-and-pray buttons. There’s no click or bump to the button's feel; you press it in with your finger and then pray that the laptop obeys you.

 On a convertible laptop, the power button is most likely located on the monitor. This way, it can be accessed when the monitor is folded flat, when the laptop is in Tablet mode. In this configuration, look for a special power-button lock. The lock prevents the power button from being punched accidentally when the tablet laptop is in full Tablet mode.