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jbergknoff | 5 years ago

I recently got an external monitor for my work Macbook. I plugged it in and soon found out that closing the laptop doesn't put it to sleep anymore. I can kind of see why somebody would want this behavior in some situations. I can't at all see why this would be the default, or why there would be no way to toggle the behavior.

> I continue to be disappointed with Apple's desktop experience.

Same here.

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herrkanin|5 years ago

> and soon found out that closing the laptop doesn't put it to sleep anymore

I'm fairly sure this has never been the case, or at least not for a very long time. As a long time Macbook user with external display, the expected behavior of closing the lid is to keep the laptop running as if the external monitor is the main display.

r00fus|5 years ago

Isn’t that called clamshell mode? If so it’s been that way for years. Easy to change IIRC also.

reaperducer|5 years ago

At least going back to the original MacBook. The one with the 10GB hard drive, around 2001-ish, did this.

It's a feature, not a bug.

generalizations|5 years ago

For myself, I expect to be able to close the laptop and continue using the external display.

jimktrains2|5 years ago

Why? Maybe if there is an external keyboard and mouse, but even then it seems bad. As the default it seems counter productive -- closing a laptop should do the same thing regardless of peripherals, unless you specify otherwise.