Comment by maccard

1 day ago

> Can I get a laptop to sleep after closing the lid yet?

> on windows all of this just works

Disagree on the sleep one - my work laptop doesn’t go to sleep properly. The only laptop I’ve ever used that behaves as expected with sleep is a macbook.

That's funny - my work MBP won't go to sleep properly, lol. Often come back to work after the weekend to find a dead laptop.

  • Then you have a significant outlier experience for that platform.

    It’s more than fine for people to dislike Apple products but this is simply not an area where other platforms have them beat.

    • Not sure why you're insinuating that I dislike apple products. My personal mb air doesn't have this issue and most of my household is on apple.

      I'm also seeing results for "macbook pro doesn't go to sleep when lid closed", so other people see this problem too. You can't really claim that other platforms have them beat here if there isn't data to support the claim.

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    • Macs do sleep well, when they manage to sleep. Sometimes macOS takes issue with certain programs, the last stack I used at work had a ~50/50 chance of inhibiting sleep when it was spun up.

      All in all, I've given up on sleep entirely and default to suspend/hibernate now.

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