Since i updated to Mavericks my Macbook Air goes straight to sleep when i push the power button. That is REALLY annoying because it breaks up my internet connection everytime.
If i want to go to sleep mode i just close my Macbook. Why would anyone need 2 options to go to sleep mode?
How can i fix this?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion
Some users want to use the power button to sleep the computer, some users want to
use the sleep option from the Apple menu and others just want to close the lid
to sleep the computers. Choices, choices and choices.
Touch and hold the power button for a while for the dialog box to pop up.
I dont think that anyone would want to go straight to sleep mode when they accidently hit the power button for half a second.. and no, there are no choices. i don't have a choice. i can't choose if iwant this or not because there is no way to modify this option
Hold down the POWER button for about 3 secs or more and the options should become available.
If you just "tap/press" on it, believe it's just a display off mode.
I know that. But this doesn't solve the problem. It does not just turn the display off. It turns into sleep mode..
And like i said it's really annoying when you accidently push it and it goes to sleep mode. downloads are canceled and you loose internet connection.
this is unacceptable. it should be possible to change it like it was in mountain lion
I'm pretty sure it's screen off, at least for mine when I tested it.
Agree with you that Apple could have make it "less sensative". Maybe use it as a boss/privacy key 🙂
I did a continuous ping and in the middle of it, pressed the power button ... screen turns off. Then a couple of seconds later, pressed it again and screen turns on. There was no interuption to the ping test.
Last login: Thu Oct 24 21:07:32 on ttys000
Alan:~ user$ ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=3.167 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.367 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.289 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.250 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.801 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.533 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=3.226 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.376 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=3.204 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.480 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1.166 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.201 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=1.196 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=1.370 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.801/1.973/3.289/0.950 ms
I tested it too.. but my download broke up because i lost connection..
this is why i need to disable this feature..
I assure you that my air goes to sleep (turns off the display and the network and many other things - perhaps there is a depth of sleep option somewhere that I have not tried thet will leave the network up) - It is the single most annoying thing since Windows Metro to infect my life. The problem on the Air is that the power button is really close to the backspace (not so on a Mac Pro) - it is trivial to miss the backspace and hit the power and suddenly in the middle of productive work you are disconnected from everything - you have to re-estabish VPN connections, RDP sessions, VNC sessions, downloads, - everything you are doing comes tumbling down around you.
Please apple - at least let Air users disable this horrific option because of the power button proximity to backspace and ease of mistyping.
This is an extremely annoying change and I really hope apple adds an option to change power button functionality. I can verify that this puts the computer to sleep and does not just turn off the display which breaks connections.
Maybe the engineer who wrote the code for it was thinking of the iPhone ... Hey, the iPhone has a quick on/off button, why not make one on the Macbook as well 😉
At least on the iPhone it doesn't kill my network connections when I put it to sleep.
thats the point.. if it wouldn't disconnect the network connection this would be annoying but acceptable.. but his way it's just ridiculous. i turn off my macbook air at least 4 times a day accidentally..
Apple needs to fix this as soon as possible. PLEASE!
Same thing here. And I *hate* this too.
Why isn't there an option for this? This ***** big time!
Anyone tried leaving Power Nap option enabled to prevent disconnection (Network)?
Yes but it didn't help. Still breaks up internet connection
That really *****.
Apple has to return power button to power dialog. As it worked perfectly.
if i want to put my mac to sleep, i can simply close the lid.
this is not an improvement. this is power button that does not work.
-I want my power button for shuting down.
In my case power button has just became Ctrl + power. this is so lame...
Powerbutton makes my Macbook Air go straight to sleep
