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I'm always amazed by the obsession of mac users with "just closing the lid for sleep".

I simply don't want that. If I close the lid then to move the laptop more easily to the next room/next floor for a meeting, I might not want it to go to sleep. When I want to suspend I run a single command. I could put that command on a key combo, so it's not like I can't fix it. I want to control what happens when I close the lid, and more often I want nothing to happen. I have a shell open anyway, so I can run my command...

But I've had that close-lid-for-suspend fail on Windows so many times, so maybe my Linux stance is too muddled anyway :P

Also both of my ThinkPads stay with power for days when suspended (ok, not weeks, I admit that) so in this case Dell is to blame I guess.

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>I simply don't want that. If I close the lid then to move the laptop more easily to the next room/next floor for a meeting, I might not want it to go to sleep.

Don't worry, it's configurable.

> Don't worry, it's configurable.

As a related aside, it's amazing the number of people who earnestly believe that macOS comes with a completely locked down set of options/preferences that you cannot change at all.

If it's configurable doesn't matter. I'm talking about the fact that I've had a lot of mac users tout this as one of the best things about the mac. OP only touches on it and I mean it's fine - it's just that I personally find it a horrible setting and keep wondering why everyone uses it :)

Author here. I can relate to that sentiment but indeed, closing the lid worked so reliably well on my MacBook that it would basically be the same as keeping the lid open and walking to the next room. Meaning: I open the lid, it wakes up, unlocks with either my watch or fingerprint, all within a second and I'm right where I was; meanwhile, while the lid was closed, power consumption was near-zero; I could leave it like that for a month, and open it, I hear the clicking sound from unlocking via watch with a tap an my wrist, and voila. Even my running VMs would still be in the same state.

And yes, Dell is to blame for the power consumption, also according so someone commenting on the blog post, I updated the blog post accordingly

We had a certain coworker spamming IRC all day by closing the lid and thus disconnecting all the time, that's my most hilarious memory. On the plus side you always knew when he left his desk. And yes, this can be fixed, it's just that not all connections are stateless.

There'are some options on macOS: - InsomniaX : do not sleep when lid is closed - Amphetamine: do not sleep when locked (⌘⌃Q)

I have an old Macbook Air 2014 with 4 gb ram. It is sluggish af. If I open many heavy apps and then lock screen (I do every tim I go to kitchen or bathroom on job) then when i unlock it - it can take up to several minutes to function normally. So Amphetamine.app is must for me.

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