I'd like a power button on the outside of my laptop so I don't have to open it.

I think 90% of the time I turn my laptop on ... it is closed and "docked" with a bunch of cables running to it and ... probably another laptop on top of it.

The struggle is real

Agreed 100%

@electrineer

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...

Nobody knows but he knows my sorrow ...

Btw, real docks often have a power button so you don't have to open the lid.

External monitor user detected. I wish I could move my eyes around a huge screen without pain. I’m basically tied to my small MacBook screen because I have to have the entire screen at focus the whole time so I don’t have to move my eyes

@electrineer Indeed, real docking stations have power buttons on them but ...

Docks usually just work with specific models of laptop, my work and home are not the same type / model.

Not all laptops support them anyway... and with monitors doing more and more, and just a couple cables REALLY doing most everything a dock does now a days ... I'm finding docking stations are often in a weird place where they're just not that useful / expensive and kinda impractical.

I've got an HP dock that works completely fine with my work MacBook. Just a USB-C plug into the laptop and I can turn it on from the dock. Works pretty well.

I have an aorus laptop that has that. It's almost impossible to press. You basically can't win.

@SortOfTested Yeah I fear that would be the result. Some hardware design person terrified of people powering it on unexpectedly ... makes it impossible.

@SortOfTested You only asked for a button on the outside, not a working one *shrugs*

On some models, you can enable keyboard-press-to-boot in BIOS. Then you can just hit a key on your external keyboard to get it to boot.

do laptops come with wakeOnLan?
it was quite neat for me when I worked as sysadmin

Lenovo yogas have that, but the annoying thing is it powers on while in a bag.

@Jedidja shame I had to scroll so far down for wakeonlan.