Q: Mid-2013 Macbook Air screen goes black?

I also updated my system to Mavericks, but the " black screen" is still existing when my macbook air 2013 sleeps, I bought it on last monday on Bestbuy.

Just upgraded to Mavericks. I am unable to repoduce the blackout issue when I close the lid 90% as I used to do in Mountain Lion. But I am able to see new problem as follows:

- Have Chrome running.

- Make sure you are on Battery

- Wait until the notebook sleeps

- After less than one second hit any keyboard key.

The macbook air goes into deep sleep and never wakes up you have to hard reset to wake it up.

If chome is not running. This does not happen.

Anyone else seeing that ?

@aSmilar exact same issue encountered today..

Have had a new Macbook Air for about 2 weeks now, so far doing better than the Late-2009 white Macbook-piece-of-crap I endured for 3 years...  But like everyone else here, got the mysterious black screen, both before and after installing Mavericks.  I'm thinking of exchanging it for one of the Macbook Pro Retina's.  There have been some traces of beachballing (just like the white piece of crap), and I'm thinking I'm never going to endure what I did again with that white-lie. 

Same here

Macbook air 11"inch mid 2013 i5 4gb Ram

After update to OS X: 10.9

Under MAVERICKS 10.9 (13A603) environment

Black screen after power on the device.

Please solve the problem quickly. Cannot turn on the Macbook.

Exactly the same problem here with the "waking" as soon as sleep has been initiated.

I talked to apple and I was told to do a SMC reset to fix this issue

There are a number of posts on here describing the same issue, I think. I've put some videos up on YouTube to show the issue I'm having with my Thunderbolt Display that I think is related. The final video is closest to some of the descriptions above.

http://www.tristancollins.me/macbook-air-woes/

Tristan

Here is my video as to what is currently going on with my Macbook Air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53FTavq2Js

Usually going nuts on the power button switches things back on. Not this time however.

Taking it into a store within the week and demanding a replacement if the "repair" takes longer than a day. I can't spare a day with my studies at hand. It's been problematic within the first month of purchase.

Yep, that's annoying... And zapping the SMC / PRAM does nothing?

Done that twice in the past and it happened soon after, I'm not sure if it is common practise to SMC reset every week or so but that sounds rather backward and regressive for an expensive and "advanced" piece of equipment like this.

I was hoping the Mavericks OS would clear up any software issues. Either it hasn't or the device is simply defective in which I hope to receive a functional one.

Confirming the black screen after waking computer right after sleep still occurrs right after a SMC reset.

I have also this issue with my mid 2013 macbook air right after i upgraded to mavericks.

Im getting a black screen after sleep post Mavericks install on my 2099 imac.

I have the same problem. the black screen appears after waking computer right after sleep.

It happened to me even during the installation of OS X Mavericks. I boot the computer from the recovery partition, then erase the main partition and tried to install OS X Mavericks again.

Unfortunately as the MBA was downloading the screen got black and I had to restart the whole process. I think this mean the behavior is not related to any third party software issue.

Hope this will be fixed soon.