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The machine can wake up for many seconds (I'm running Windows 10 on my Macboo Pro). During that time, there's no communication on the state of the machine at at
by burntoutfire 4y ago
The machine can wake up for many seconds (I'm running Windows 10 on my Macboo Pro). During that time, there's no communication on the state of the machine at at all (the keyboard doesn't light up for me). Is it still asleep? During wake up? Or maybe powered off completely for some reason? If it's powered off, then I should press the "Power" button... But what if it isn't? - will pressing it kill the wake up process? Who knows! So much frustration caused by removing a single LED.
- snom380 4y agoI think this is one of the cases where Apple doing hardware and software shines through. They’ve made macOS resume quickly from sleep, to the point where I’ve never really thought about/noticed the problem you’re describing. So the LED really isn’t needed for 99% of the users, the same way that you don’t have a power LED on iPhones or iPads. On recent models the login screen is there before you’ve fully opened the lid. (It’s interesting in itself to track the history of power/sleep lights on MacBooks, since as far as I can remember they only turned on in the case where the internal display is off, or when the laptop was sleeping (pulsing light). Jony Ive even talked about it in the Objectified documentary: https://vimeo.com/7827217 https://vimeo.com/7827217 )