iMac; iPad; iPhone; iPod, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Dimming the screen does work, but I'd rather be able to close the lid for safety reasons, i.e. falling off a shelf or table and the monitor becoming separated from the keyboard (worst case scenario)...
Also, do we really need hostility on a forum discussing operating options for laptops? Go to a political forum if you want to bash on people by posts... This was put in place to help out people who have looked for options to make life easier or who are new to Mac... Why so much angst?
I installed ImsoniaX, I activate it and close the lid and still the computer sleeps. Don't understand why people are recommending this. Or is it because my MBP is the 2011 model? Can someone help me? Great thread btw.
Thanks in advanced.
I just want this because I travel by train a lot and I wanted to be able to close my computer in my bag and leave the music playing in my headphones. So I dont have to have the computer open on a train when I have no need to. This way I could simply listen to music like if it was a huge iPod 🙂
Please Help. InsomniaX doesnt keep the mac from sleeping when fully closed. At least the music stops... and when I open it its all black.
Except for this situation:
The bottom line is that Mountain Lion doesn't always properly return from sleep. I've had monitor corruption and also problems with the wifi returning.
I have an external monitor but I have two computers hooked to it. When I switch the monitor to the other computer - by changing the input settings on the monitor - the macbook goes to sleep. I don't want it to. No way to stop this as far as I have found but there sure should be.
punpanonicus wrote:
I just want this because I travel by train a lot and I wanted to be able to close my computer in my bag and leave the music playing in my headphones. So I dont have to have the computer open on a train when I have no need to. This way I could simply listen to music like if it was a huge iPod 🙂
Please Help. InsomniaX doesnt keep the mac from sleeping when fully closed. At least the music stops... and when I open it its all black.
YES this is exactly what I would like to do as well. I could do this with my PC before I turned to the dark side. With Windows there are otions regarding what the computer will do when shutting the lid, and one of the option is "do nothing", meaning do not sleep or shut down.
SP Foreskin, what if I want to do exactly what pupanonicus wants, except instead of putting my mac in a bag, I want to simply carry it in the open in a cool windy city?
botched response by SP Forsythe
your intellect is obnoxious
running itunes will not overheat the computer, screen up or down.
running itunes whilst encased inside a bag I don't know the answer to, but, logic tells me it wouldn't overheat the computer.
no need to regurgitate information you read in a book on a simple user query.
nice work overcomplicating life.
#palm
bish
"This behavior of sleeping when the screen is closed is standard to just about all laptops, by the way. "
Unfortunately untrue… windows based machines have the ability to override as standard.
Shame it’s not there yet for Mac.
i agree you are a apple fanboy....
just admit it that Mac can't do what a user wants, meaning its not user friendly 😕
Send your feedback to Apple directly, that's how we told them how stupid it was removing the backlit keyboard from the last MacBook Air! People power?!
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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At the top of your keyboard you will find a button numbered F2 press it and your screen will come brighter
thank you 😁
Close lid, do nothing
