pedz
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Very often (like two or so times a week), my 15" Macbook Pro will not wake up properly. The "I am sleeping" light on the front will go off the but display will never come one. Also, frequently, the "I am sleeping" light will never start to pulsate like it should. It stays hard on. If I leave it like that for long, it will drain the battery pretty quickly. So, it is not really going to sleep.
I believe the problem started when I set the option to prompt for a password from a wake up. I'm not sure of that. It might also be due to the DVI monitor I plug in to at work. I get to work, wake up the laptop, then plug in the DVI. To go home, I do the reverse: unplug it, let the screen get right, then hit the power button and type 's' for sleep. I then wait for the light to start pulsing before closing the lid and packing it up.
But all this is not the "Apple" way. With all my laptops before, I could just close the lid and be off. But that doesn't seem to work with this laptop. And the wake up is totally frustrating. When it does not wake up the first time, I have not found a "work around" to get it back alive. I have to just shutdown by holding down the power button until I hear the disk spin down. Then boot it back up.
I think Apple is going the way of Microsoft. To me, Safari is an utter piece of crap. It looks wonderful but way too often it botches the new web 2.0 web sites. Anyhow... off the topic a bit. I'd like to fix the display wake up problem but really, I am just seeing more and more problems with the Mac than ever before.
Rather than coming out with a new OS twice a minute, I'd pay more money for something that just works.
Is it time for Linux?
Sorry for the rant.
I believe the problem started when I set the option to prompt for a password from a wake up. I'm not sure of that. It might also be due to the DVI monitor I plug in to at work. I get to work, wake up the laptop, then plug in the DVI. To go home, I do the reverse: unplug it, let the screen get right, then hit the power button and type 's' for sleep. I then wait for the light to start pulsing before closing the lid and packing it up.
But all this is not the "Apple" way. With all my laptops before, I could just close the lid and be off. But that doesn't seem to work with this laptop. And the wake up is totally frustrating. When it does not wake up the first time, I have not found a "work around" to get it back alive. I have to just shutdown by holding down the power button until I hear the disk spin down. Then boot it back up.
I think Apple is going the way of Microsoft. To me, Safari is an utter piece of crap. It looks wonderful but way too often it botches the new web 2.0 web sites. Anyhow... off the topic a bit. I'd like to fix the display wake up problem but really, I am just seeing more and more problems with the Mac than ever before.
Rather than coming out with a new OS twice a minute, I'd pay more money for something that just works.
Is it time for Linux?
Sorry for the rant.