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This is one the primary reasons I use a MacBook (the other being the trackpad). Instant and reliable on/off when I close/open the lid, without ever worrying abo
by tda 2y ago
This is one the primary reasons I use a MacBook (the other being the trackpad). Instant and reliable on/off when I close/open the lid, without ever worrying about it is something I just take for granted.
If I need a mouse and do a controlled shutdown/boot I might as well use a desktop.
- djxfade 2y agoModern Mac's use a very similar sleep state, where they can still receive notifications and perform simple background tasks.
- jbverschoor 2y agoExcept that actually works
- djxfade 2y agoYes definetly. Apple's implementation is solid.
- glandium 2y agoFor a value of work that leaves you with no battery after a few days, while older Intel macs would last literal months.
- joshstrange 2y agoThat’s interesting, I have the exact opposite experience. My Intel MBP would keep running or doing something in my backpack such that the battery would be lower and it would be hot. It wasn’t always and the Intel MBP worked better than any windows computer I had used before it but still noticeable. Sometimes after not using it for a day, closed and unplugged, it would be dead. In contrast, my M-chip MBP never gets hot and the battery is reminiscent of my iPad. I used to stress about my power cord and making sure I had it with me, I still always carry one because I like being prepared but I don’t have to use it hardly ever away from home.
- rsynnott 2y agoWhile I haven't personally seen it do this (is this on a personal laptop or a work laptop? Corporate management tools do all sorts of silly things), if it's doing that, would recommend just turning it off (it's in settings).
- guappa 2y agoAnd older intel ones would just set the ACPI timer to get woken up eventually, every once in a while, and re-suspend in a few seconds.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoAnd they give the user the option of turning that behaviour on or off, or allowing it only when connected to external power.
- perryizgr8 2y agoModern macs also have an irritating behaviour where they will aggressively connect to your bluetooth headphones even when they are asleep. There is absolutely no purpose for this, except annoying you. I've to open the laptop and disable bluetooth otherwise my headphones immediately connect to it and then can't connect to another device.
- acdha 2y agoThis isn’t normal. Do you have any kind of audio apps running?
- perryizgr8 2y agoHuh? I've had this happen to me on two distinct macbooks now, so I assumed it was a mac thing. Don't have any special audio apps, I use the laptop for google meet and slack huddles though.
- newdee 2y agoYep, it’s called Power Nap. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac
- theshrike79 2y agoThe fact that it has worked for a decade+ over hardware revisions and OS updates is the key thing here. Windows worked for a while, then didn't, then it worked again. I actually destroyed a Windows laptop with a faulty lid suspend. Closed the lid, put it in a laptop bag and drove 3 hours. Got there and it was 100% dead, cooked itself alive pretty much by overheating in the bag. Linux sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't. Depends on hardware and software versions. It might work at first, then you update the OS and it breaks again.
- deergomoo 2y agoI’m thankful this is back to being almost flawless with ARM Macs. Back in the day it worked great too (my first Mac was 2009) but in my anecdotal experience a lot of the later Intel Macs would go to sleep just fine but really did not want to wake back up again, on a semi-regular basis.