Any shortcut to shutdown the Mac?

Here's the answer!

I posted this question in an other forum and someone gave me the answer! To turn off your Mac without using your mouse, here's how:
<ctrl> + ? then <enter>

Press the Control key and the Eject key, then a window will open asking you if you want to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut Down. As the Shut Down button is the default button, you just need to hit return et voilà!

Is there any particular reason you're shutting down instead of putting it to Sleep? Most of the time, under OS X, you don't need to shut down, unless you'll be unplugging it for some reason.

technologist said:

Is there any particular reason you're shutting down instead of putting it to Sleep? Most of the time, under OS X, you don't need to shut down, unless you'll be unplugging it for some reason.

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I think it has something to do with my education. My parents taught me to always turn off lights, TV, etc...when I'm not using it, to economise on electricity. I know that it doesn't use that much electricity when it's on sleep mode, but, as I said, it's a habbit.

Same here.. lol

I would also recommend UPS for all mac users (not notebooks, they dont need this).
My cousin's emac was destroyed during a voltage spike, plus you get a chance to shut down your computer about 10-15 minutes after a power failure just in case your doing something important, or not.

The shortcut command that you want, goes like this: ctrl, option key, apple key, and eject key. This key combination will shutdown your computer without any prompt.

I had to learn all the important shortcut commands in my Mac class, before I could take any commercial arts classes.

Surely a surge protector would protect against that and be faaaaaar cheaper than a UPS