Comment by matt_kantor
10 months ago
My favorite is how when I close my macbook with an external display plugged in, the laptop screen remains on (and lit up!) with seemingly no way to configure this behavior. Sometimes a window will end up on that (non-visible) screen which can be very confusing.
That seems like a misconfig or a broken lid sensor or something. I’ve been using MacBooks with a single external monitor as my only display (MacBook closed) for over a decade and I’ve never had the laptop display stay on when closed with an external display. Maybe time to visit the Genius Bar?
My M1 has been like this since I got it so assumed it was by design, but perhaps not. My old macbook doesn't behave this way.
Huh.. maybe that's why it always runs out of battery on the rare occasion I put it in a backpack and take it somewhere...