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Re: Cancel Sleep


On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Terry Lambert wrote:

On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Andrew James <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,

How do i cancel a sleep event from happening, along with things like the lid closing and causing a sleep.

The general power management strategy is to turn off everything that can be turned off as soon as it can be turned off, for as long as it can be turned off.

There are certain strategies that could be used to thwart this, but of course they are not documented or supported, and we would most likely eliminate them if they became widely known/used, since we generally consider them low priority bugs, rather than features.

Running a laptop at or near its normal thermal boundaries with the clamshell closed, even if it's on line power, is generally not a good idea. The keyboard and adjacent interior surface provides part of the normal cooling. While you can run this way with external monitor, keyboard, etc., disabling the internal display only gets you part of your budget back, and you will most likely find yourself thermally throttled on performance.

You wouldn't convince me of that unless you could show me documentation, as Apple condones and tell everybody that they can run with an external display and keyboard & have the lid closed.



Rather than asking about cancelling sleep, maybe you want to state a goal, instead?

I think his goal is to be able to have the machine keep running instead of going to sleep. I can say as one that want the feature (not bug), that I have a bug report requesting the ability to run with the lid closed. If I recall correctly the bug wasn't marked closed, works as intended, or anything like that; but is still open. I don't like having to leave my lid open so my laptop can be sitting on my desk downloading a 1GB file over a slow DSL connection, or doing some lengthy data processing. I would prefer to have it closed (even if my fans had to continuously run to keep my MacBook cool enough.

Telling everybody that want this 'feature' that it's bad or impossible isn't being nice.

Regards,
David Alger

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