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I have a new mid-2012 MB Air that works perfectly, but for no reason will just go black. In the middle of working on that machine, it goes to sleep with a black screen. It can be awakened normally, and things work for a while. I thought that it would be something with the power management, on battery or not, or hot corners. I changed all of those things, but the problem persists. Any ideas out there?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Mid-2012
Interesting to see two recent posts on this symptom. For what it is worth, the MBA is still working, not that I did a fresh load of everything. Not the same problem that you are having, and you have a newer MBA with a different bus architecture.
Apple will not respond to these posts. It is unusual for them to even browse, but they do on occasion. Best bet is going to the geniuses for assistance (note that I did not use the word "help").
Same problem here with same brand new Macbook Air. Annoying😠
I've had this problem ever since first opening my new MBA mid-2013, before ever installing any apps or copying over any files from Time Machine. (I didn't restore any apps from Time Machine, but did copy over documents and user settings) The fact that it occurred within a few minutes of using the machine for the first time, just doing web browsing to download LaTeX and stuff, makes me dubious that a clean install would solve it. Since I don't have time for that at the moment, anyway, I'll have to wait and see if it works for enough others, before setting aside the time to do that!
I too have a new mid-2013 MBA. I did a Time Machine load, and I had zero problems. This thing is mysterious.
The 21012 MBA (my wife's) had a bout of not waking, but it was because she shut her lid, then immediately opened it again. When allowing a few minutes to go to sleep before attempting a wake up, this observed behavior went away. I guess that I now have two working MBAs, and I am experiencing no problems at this time. Try going to the Apple geniouses. They can check out your hardware to make sure that nothing is out of spec.
I have the exact same problem. It's very rare, but it happens enough to annoy me.
Here's a big "me too". And a "me too, too." I have 13" Air from earlier in 2013 before the design refresh, and my wife just got a 13" Air after the design refresh (a month ago). Mine is from my company with whatever they put on it, hers straight from Apple. Both go to sleep every 1 or 2 days without any initiation. Mine is almost always plugged in.
Sudden sleep for mid-2012 Macbook Air
