

MACBOOK DONT SLEEP MAC
If you have a desktop Mac in your home, like an iMac, you can just walk away and let it go to sleep or use a hot corner to turn the display off. If you have a MacBook, a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air just close the lid and it goes to sleep. You don't even have to actually choose Sleep. So what you want to do instead is choose Sleep. So it's either going to try and perform some of them while you're trying to use your Mac as well or it's never going to get around to doing them which is going to slowdown your Mac.

Then you start it up and you expect your Mac to be fast and responsive and do all this stuff but you haven't let it perform these maintenance tasks. It's doing this while you're not there.īut if you shutdown your Mac it doesn't get a chance to do it. A lot of power is used by your screen anyway which is off. Like, for instance, index the files so you can do searches, perform backups, lots of different things going on in the background that it does in a very low power mode, it's not using very much power at all. There's all sorts of things that your Mac does. Maybe even prolong the life of your Mac.īut in fact what you're doing is you're preventing your Mac from performing some very simple, basic, everyday maintenance tasks that it's supposed to do while you're not using it. Choosing Shut Down you may think is a good idea when you're finished using your Mac. What I'm talking about is shutting down your Mac. Video Transcript: So if you're new to Mac there's something you're doing, perhaps every single day, that you shouldn't really be doing. It is set to sleep after 1 minute on battery.Check out A Beginner’s Guide To Whether To Shut Down or Sleep Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. I've quit every application and killed any non-system process I could see running under my user account. This is every process that is running on the machine at the moment. 627 Activity Monitor dtlokenĔ.1ĒĒ8.1 MB Intel (64 bit)Ħ29 activitymonitord rootĐ.5đđ.1 MB Intel (64 bit)Ħ44 AirPort Base Station Agent dtlokenĐ.0Ĕđ.8 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ25 rvice dtlokenĐ.0ēĘ.9 MB Intel (64 bit)Ĥ0 autofsd rootĐ.0Ēę36 KB Intel (64 bit)ģ9 blued rootĐ.0ēĔ.2 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ3 configd rootĐ.0ĕē.0 MB Intel (64 bit)ħ2 coreaudiod _coreaudiodĐ.0ĒĔ.1 MB Intel (64 bit)ĥ0 coreservicesd rootĐ.0ĔĒ1.1 MB Intel (64 bit)Ħ43 cupsd rootĐ.0ēĒ.1 MB Intel (64 bit)Ħ3 cvmsServ rootĐ.0đĘ40 KB Intel (64 bit)Ħ07 DashboardClient dtlokenė.0Ėē8.3 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ5 DirectoryService rootĐ.0ĕĕ.5 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ2 diskarbitrationd rootĐ.0Ēđ.4 MB Intel (64 bit)Ĥ3 distnoted daemonĐ.0ēđ.3 MB Intel (64 bit)Ĩ0 Dock dtlokenĐ.2ēĒ0.4 MB Intel (64 bit)ģ4 dynamic_pager rootĐ.0đė88 KB Intel (64 bit)Ĩ2 Finder dtlokenĐ.0Ėđ8.0 MB Intel (64 bit)Ģ89 Firewall dtlokenĐ.0đđ.3 MB Intel (64 bit)Ĩ8 fontd dtlokenĐ.5ēē.3 MB Intel (64 bit)ģ2 fseventsd rootĐ.0đ2Ē.2 MB Intel (64 bit)Ģ9 KernelEventAgent rootĐ.0ēđ,004 KB Intel (64 bit)ġ0 kextd rootĐ.0Ēđ4.0 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ launchd rootĐ.0ēđ.1 MB Intel (64 bit)ħ6 launchd dtlokenĐ.0Ēę56 KB Intel (64 bit)Ģ8 loginwindow dtlokenĐ.0ĒĘ.9 MB Intel (64 bit)Ģ7 mDNSResponder _mdnsresponderĐ.0ēĒ.4 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ31 mdworker dtlokenĐ.1ēđ6.8 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ1 notifyd rootĐ.0Ēė04 KB Intel (64 bit)Ĩ5 pboard dtlokenĐ.0đĘ32 KB Intel (64 bit)Ħ24 Quick Look Helper dtlokenĐ.0Ėē7.0 MB Intel (64 bit)ĥ31 rcd dtlokenĐ.0Ēĕ.6 MB Intel (64 bit)Ģ3 securityd rootĐ.0Ēē.0 MB Intel (64 bit)Ħ13 SyncServer dtlokenĐ.0ĕĕ.8 MB Intel (64 bit)ġ4 syslogd rootĐ.0ĔĘ12 KB Intel (64 bit)Ĩ1 SystemUIServer dtlokenĐ.3ēē0.9 MB Intel (64 bit)ĩ2 UserEventAgent dtlokenĐ.0ēĕ.1 MB Intel (64 bit)ĥ7 WindowServer _windowserverē.2Ĕĕ2.5 MB Intel (64 bit)
