Hi, as mentioned by others, you can't. This is to prevent over heating. To conserve battery, you can turn screen brightness down to 0%. This effectively turns off the display. F1 and F2 brightens and dims your display. Depending on how you have your function keys set up, you might have to add The FN key to that.
hth Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 4, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Jed Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > Forgive me for so many questions. How do I make it so wheni close the lid > on my macbook, it doesn't go to sleep? > This is kind of annoying as I'll keep it closed most of the time as I use an > external keyboard? > > Thanks, > Jed > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
