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Mac also can't get sleep right. Have you tried to make a macbook consistently be 'awake' when the lid is closed? You can't, really. Almost everyone resorts to
by jpalawaga 1y ago
Mac also can't get sleep right. Have you tried to make a macbook consistently be 'awake' when the lid is closed?
You can't, really. Almost everyone resorts to buying an HDMI dongle to fake a display. Apple solved the problem at such a low level, the flexibility to run something in clamshell mode is broken, even when using caffeine/amphetamine/etc etc etc.
So, tradeoffs. They made their laptops go to sleep very well, but broke functionality in the process. You can argue it's a good tradeoff, just acknowledge that there WAS a tradeoff made.
- cyberpunk 1y agoCounter-Example: I ran an air without a monitor connected for years using caffeine, worked perfectly for me..
- cobbzilla 1y agoI did for years too, but newer MacBooks no longer allow running with lid-closed unless connected to a monitor, I was disappointed to recently learn this. If I’m wrong, someone tell me how to do it! On an M4 MacBook Air running latest OSX release.
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- pico303 1y agoI don’t mean this to sound like I’m being a jerk, but why would I want my MacBook to be awake with the lid closed? If I want it to be awake doing something, I leave the lid open and let the screen sleep. Maybe I’ve been using a Mac too long, but lid closed means sleep to me. I’ll even do that when I have it plugged into a monitor: close the lid to make it sleep.