and make sure you wait, it can take up to two full minutes to shut down some times.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Bresnahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Odd Mac behavior. Please help. Hi, Here's my take on Mac laptops, Mac Book and Mac Book Pro, if you shut the lid before the system shuts down, it will often put it into sleep mode rather than shutting it down. I've found that you need to wait until you hear the fan and hard drive go dead before you close the lid. I've found this is often the cause of such behavior. In addition, the hinge sensor that detects the lid position can be loose and on some Mac Books it will wake up before the lid is opened, draining the battery and causing a hot hot laptop in a padded bag. On the disk fragmentation, imho, it's not even worth worrying about unless you have less than 20 percent free on your hard disk. Rare these days, but possible in some cases. If you are experiencing performance issues, I'd make sure you have at least 1gb of RAM in that Macbook. Best of luck, Scott -- --Scott
