This Little Mistake Kills M2 MacBooks!
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Today I will tell you when you SHOULD close your MacBook, and when you should not do it! When can you just close it, and when is it better to turn off the MacBook? It is very important to know this difference, otherwise you will destroy your laptop! So how do you keep your MacBook from dying? There is an exit! By watching this video from start to finish, you will learn how to keep your MacBook alive in 2022! What's more, I'll talk about the little details that can also affect your laptop!
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Says “I don’t wanna beat around the bush”, continues to beat around the bush
You talk too much.... Summarize man
Average TH-camr
Gotta fill time to make money lol it’s a joke.
This guy posts like 10 videos a week spewing the same shit everyone else already said
Seriously get to the Fucking point
Felt like 30 min video
I think you said using sleep mode rather than closing the lid is ok, but I’m not sure. Everything was presented with caveats. Straight answers and summaries are helpful. Thanks for the video.
I've been turning on and off my Macbook Pro everyday since 2012 and never had any detrimental issues with it.
On the other side I always use sleep mode and nothing has happened as far as I know
so it doesnt matter does it?
Can you let use know where you found the information that your quoting. There seems to be a lot of opinions about what a Mac does when "asleep" but I've not seen documentation or evidence anywhere to support it.
Would like to support your question. A lot of info without sources. Let is know...
+1 I would like to know as well. Some of the info in this video rang my B.S. bell pretty violently.
Kinda agree with this your comment man.
@@psalmsbyharvz81 It's like when enough people repeat what someone says it becomes the truth - but I've never seen any evidence of this happening and I even asked apple support at the end of a call and they we unable to find any documentation that MacOS did this in sleep mode.
Use the terminal to check your particular models sleep settings? And preferably turn OFF saving the sleep image to the SSD, because it’s the size of your total Ram being saved to the disc every single time you sleep your machine.
I have an old MacBook from 2013. I've shut it down every night when I used it for 4-5 years. My parents have been using it since at their house and it hasn't died, so unless you plan to use your Mac for 20 years, I say the advantages are subtle. The average person won't see the performance change I don't think
same here, my mac pro from 2012 is running perfectly fine. people are treating their laptops like cellphones and thats whats killing them
I shut my 2015 pro down everytime I wouldn’t use it for prolonged periods of time- absolutely nothing wrong with it and very little battery degradation (like… it’s almost 8 years old and runs nearly good as new). Not slow at all. I got a new laptop but I still use my pro occasionally for heavier workloads (not often now) but my mom who is an architect uses it as well now (heavily and daily) and I expect it will live another 5 years. It’s a tough laptop lol. The man told me when I first got the pro it would last at least 8 years and they weren’t kidding. That pro had several spills to the keyboard, several high drops and was handled roughly throughout my university days. I don’t think I’ll ever switch to a non-Apple laptop because of this reason lol
I never shut down my Mac pro. Bought in 2015 it’s been seven years and still runs fine
I shut down my Mac Pro one time and it never turned on again. I regret that day so much
12 years and going :) But its about time to get a new one.
Fun fact: Used to have a Macbook Pro that if you close the lid right after done heavy work it MELTS the screen, started to notice discoloration of the screen then started to warp and when I take note and talked with Apple Support they advice me that I should wait the Macbook COOLS a little before close the lid to avoid this, the screen replacement costed me a kidney.
Thanks
It’s funny when he said “I’m not gonna beat around the bush” but then, all throughout the whole video, he introduces an idea butalways says “but before that….” LOL
Just enjoy your macbook guys hehe Don't stress out :) because at the end of the day it will still age.
You're right!!
Aand we will still age
Terribly wrong. MacBooks have tons of memory leak issues and cannot stay up for long periods of time, EVERY single OS benefits from periodic restarts. Specially when you're low on RAM. On an M1 MacbookAir 8gb 256gb model, after 1-3 days of use, idle RAM consumption is at ~65% even with all the apps closed! If you restart it, idle consumption will go down to low 30's or 40's...
No system gets hurt from restarting, there is no strain on the components on startup. Specially on macs.
Please test your claims before you give advice, other than that, great video.
Sorry that's BS, what do you think big server farms are doing wrong, when just restarted for updates?
Memory Leaks can happen, because no software is perfect, but it's not a build in feature to restart your system regularly.
My systems runs often for weeks or sometime for months.
High RAM usage isn’t always a bad thing. Operating systems are designed to use extra RAM if it is available for speed purposes. For example, you could have two MacBook Pro‘s, one with 16 GB of RAM and one with 32 GB of RAM. They’re running the same apps but the one with 32 GB of RAM will likely have higher ram usage due to the OS keeping more things in memory. The only time you need to restart your computer is if you see a problem. All my MacBooks have very long uptime.
No. I literally leave my MacBook in sleep mode and wake it up when I use it for 6 months or more of uptime. Ram usage is totally fine. I rarely reset or shut down unless I have to for updates.
Other OS are significantly worse and I MUST reset or shutdown my Windows machine constantly. I have never had to on MacOS in a decade of using my machine.
I can go literally 6-8 months of just sleep mode when not in use with no visible slowdowns. Although that is OS version dependent. A buggy version of a particular OS might need a reset if it’s a bad update, but that’s about it. And I would probably reset in between heavy workloads with lots of data moving around like video editing. But for just surfing and office work? Just reset the application, or clear the browser cache.
I work as a software engineer using my MacBook countless hours everyday. I have zero memory leak issues. I sleep my MacBook every night and shut down maybe once a week or every 2 weeks. Your Mac is SUPPOSED to use your RAM in exactly the way you described.
WIth desktop Macs you can control whether it does tasks in its sleep. In System Preferences > Energy Saver, if you switch off "Prevent your Mac from automatically sleeping", "Wake for network access", and "Enable Power Nap", then it won't wake itself up. I use this on my iMac as it's in my bedroom and I don't want it spinning up the external disk while I'm trying to sleep! The first two of these options are also available on my 14" M1 Macbook Pro (under "Battery" rather than "Energy Saver") but Power Nap isn't - I don't know for sure but I suspect it's because they simply don't have Power Nap mode anyway, so hopefully just switching those two options off will suffice to make sleep mean sleep.
I had MacBook Pro 2011, and I was just closing the lead down, until I realised that MacBook stays on and gets really warm in sleep mode, and it was happening time to time and sometimes completely discharging the battery. After sometime I started getting some artefacts and vertical lines on the screen, then mac started to freeze quiet frequently. I took it to Apple, and my model apparently had GPU related defect, so they fixed it for free (even the warranty was expired).
Maybe I’m a bit paranoid but i was always shutting down all my future MacBooks after what happened.
This was fascinating but also confusing for someone (Me!) who is not a computer dynamo and also brand new to owning a Mac laptop. Did I understand you correctly as follows: The difference between keeping a “powered-up” Mac in Sleep Mode v. Clamshell Mode when user closes cover is whether external charger is attached? Clamshell with power cord plugged in, sleep without IOW? And although you touched on this, what about battery usage when a Mac is in Sleep Mode? For example, if user placed Mac into Sleep Mode at 6:00 pm, (closing computer) and reactivates at 9:00 am the next morning, that’s 15 hours of Sleep Mode, with the computer not being charged that entire time. The MacBook Pro M2 can handle this? The gist of your video that I took away was that this is the state you recommend keeping a Mac in when not using, so wanted to make sure I didn’t misunderstand you.
A much more difficult problem is keeping a charging/power cord or any other cord attached to unit without my cats eating all cords in sight. They’re specialists in it.
I didnt understand him either
I never shut down my old MBP mid 2009, and also I will not shut down my brand new MBP M1 Pro 14".
Both waking up pretty perfect and very fast.
Very interesting, I didn't know about routines inside the Mac, when I close the lid; great video. Over night battery is falling by 1% or 2%; not more.
The M1 does not produce enough heat to become a problem open or closed lid. Besides the mac will go to sleep unless a power source is connected when the lid is closed.
Hi, is it possible if I plug the charger during I work from 7 am to 3 pm and after that I unplugged it?
I have three MacBook Pros, one of which is a 2012 used for processing business records. I never turn any of them off and the battery life is still good. For word processing and spreadsheets, the 2012 is not noticeably any different than the day I purchased it.
I never shut down my m2 pro, I just close the lid and keep it aside with all my work open on it lol I love the fact that I can just hop onto what I was working on before I closed the lid of my laptop
is your macbook dead now?
@@qub4942 why no
1:45 this happens due to some "larger" speck of dust or sand between the lid and the keyboard. Happened once on my 16" M1 Max.
I've used my MacBook Pro 14" everyday using it at least 10 times a day and i've never powered it off or restarted it (except when software updating). With nothing changing, it performs like brand-new.
YOU! YOU TOOK MY USERNAME ! GIVE IT BACK PLEASE
Shut down the computer once a week. During startup it sort of “fixes” certain errors.
Also many people don’t realise that closing the lid on a crumb is enough to crack it, or with a webcam cover
Is there any screen protectors out there that are high quality?
@@sethsphoto many people use screen protectors but it’s kinda pointless tbh
Like how you gonna scratch ur macbook
@@sethsphoto If you want to lose the beauty of the screen, use a screen protector.
@@himynameisryan completely false lol, my 4 year old touchbar MacBook had a severely lightly scratched screen. Just depends on whether you travel or not.
@@kvn.nguyen I take my MacBook everywhere and live in Australia, right next to the country, where red dirt covers everything and in theory could scratch the screen. Just by closing the lid, yet it doesn’t. Yes, my phone gets scratched, but that’s exposed, the only damage to my MacBook display is where I dropped a screwdriver on it and the display scratched lightly
I have my M1 MBA now for 2,5 years. I never ever turned it off. Just restarts after an update. I always just close the lid and I love it, that the M1 goes on working, updates, chats, everything is also up to date. I also use it at external usb-c monitors with a closed lid. Its a perfect machine. I will never give it back.
I always turn off my Mac after using it. Keeping it in sleep mode increases the likelihood of the computer draining power or overheating components. I've had friends who bring me their MacBooks with many issues that I noticed had a common denominator that they never turn off or reboot their computer.
On my mid 2010, I left my laptop plugged in 24/7 and ON 24/7. 12 years later and still running.
I had a 2012 MacBook Air, I probably only switched it off a handful of times and always left it in sleep mode. It lasted 10yrs! And I’m now researching which new MacBook to get. I will treat it the same - minimal number of full shut downs …
Same for me with 2013 MBP - 10 years!
Apple doesn't want u to shut it down because they invented power naps for it
Leave it on
@@puertoriqueno24 That's a 'funny' right? lol My M.O. routine is a 4 minute (at most) power nap - very useful on 2-day drives from MA to FL when I was younger - but I hesitate now I've discovered Hawai'i. It's only a 9-hour flight vs. a 30-hour stressed drive. And Hawai'i has Florida beat - except in the roller coaster department. I don't always need roller coasters but the naps are nice.
I've just moved over to a MacBook air from a mid 2010 MacBook pro that i've had from new. The pro has spent most of it's life sat on a desk mostly plugged in with the lid left open where it's had many many hours of use and rarely shut down. It still works just a bit slow and with a few wounds lol, missing key, the odd dent and spill causing sticky keys. You'd think the battery would be knackered but it still holds a charge and lasts just over an hour. I'll use the air in the same way and hopefully it'll last a good while.
I just got the m2 MacBook Pro. shutting it down takes just seconds. and then when I open it up it automatically turns on again, which also takes seconds. I have no issues just shutting it down whenever I'm not using it. it's pretty nice. but I get why it shouldn't be shutdown every single time.
Pretty sure if either sleep or completely powered off was optimal, Apple would say something about it. Turning your computer off an on I suppose might cause more strain on the components, but not so much that it's going to affect your machine. By the time something like that affects your machine (20+ years) you will have moved on to something else.
This reminds me of the people who used to say "starting up your car more causes wear on the parts and will damage it quicker" and so people started idling their cars more often. What people never mention, or realize, is that yes, on paper going to an off state and back to an on state will cause more stress/wear and tear, than just a continual on state, it takes tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of cycles, for it to actually impact your device (or car).
I'd say unless you're planning to keep your MacBook for about 25+ years, I wouldn't really worry about shutting down versus going to sleep. And I can't really think of anyone who's still using a 25 year old laptop for anything of significance. Maybe to let your 5 year old play minesweeper on your old college laptop that still holds a 5 minute charge?
Also, the speed and having things stored in RAM is hardly an issue these days. It takes effectively maybe 2-3 seconds to open a program versus 1 second. Your day won't be over and your efficiency isn't going to take some kind of dramatic drop. You likely don't even start working in your program fast enough to take advantage of that 1-2 second faster load.
Startup is equally as fast, and it is a negligible difference. I think from lifting my lid to power on and being in the desktop, it takes about 5 seconds from being completely shut down. I'm not usually even ready to start working in 5 seconds, so yes, while it might load in about 1-2 seconds from sleep, it's not anything that makes sense to worry about.
Any stuff going on in the background during sleep mode I would assume also goes on in the background while your computer is idle. Any time you step away for a few minutes, your computer knows. If it's smart enough o perform tasks in sleep mode, it should be plenty smart enough to run indexing when the computer is idling for any given time, then dial it back as soon as it senses input again. That, and the fact that even while you're actively on the machine, there are plenty of times where you aren't demanding 100% of the performance, that it could be doing these things in the background with 0 performance affect on the tasks you are performing yourself.
It's honestly just up to whatever personally works works best for you. Put your computer to sleep, power it down, whatever makes the most sense or is easiest. I just as soon keep it turned off when not in use, as I feel it is better protected. If the components are actively running, even in a low power mode, there is more chance of damage should a surge go through (if plugged in), or there is some kind of physical jolt (dropping your case/bag), or if liquid gets near the machine. If the machine is off, a lot of these things are potentially less likely to cause damage. Not saying they won't, but even a small percentage less likely is enough for me.
Good luck turning any M1/M2 completely off.
Just superb!! We need to calm down ourselves on these small issues!
They do it on purpose to make you want to buy another MacBook lol
My MacBook Pro sleeps more than I shut it down going on 10 years of long-hour use. It's great! Point of interest, years ago there was a recording studio I visited from time to time just north of Boston,. Everything there was analog then and Apple, if they were at all up and running, were at the clunky devices stage, so it was long before ProTools and Logic were developed. 24-multi track tape machines were the state-of-the-art. But all the outboard gear too was analog and the studio set-up was extensive. They kept all of their equipment running 24/7 (with fans/AC running to keep the control room cool.) The thinking was that powering on and off created surges which damaged the equipment more quickly than would be the case just leaving it all on. My old Phillips 212 turntable (still working since the early 70's) - the two things broken were the on/off switch and the lighted speed buttons don't always keep the turntable running - as they flip to off mode. (a wedged toothpick is jammed to keep it ON and a drill bit completes the lighted speed button circuit - 45/0ff/33 rpm. The turntable is plugged into my 6 channel Yamaha receiver and only powers up when I power up the Yamaha (a 7.1 surround system.) I wouldn't justify keeping the 6 channels x 100 watts running a hole in my wallet while I can save that money for new Apple toys (the Vision Pro arriving this week :)
Bruh, this is like me buying a car and telling me to keep the doors open at night.
I have the new M2Pro MacBook Pro 14" and I've found that it works best when shut down on an evening 2 to 3 times a week. Leaving it constantly on/sleep mode causes it to act weird at times - freezes etc. This Mac replaces my 14 year old MacBook which still works to this day - the hard drive lasted 9 years!!!! I shut that down EVERY night. Even iPhones and Apple TV needs restarts once a week or so IMO. Do what works best for you!
Should I use hard case in MacBook pro?
Ya, the Apple TV, remote for it - software on iPhone running Apple TV remote) all need a shut-down fairly frequently.
Good video, been doing this for many years now! Works perfectly, except a few years ago my macbook pro’s battery got bloated, but was exchanged nonissue! Until I got my Newest Mac Studio I only used my pro instead of a desktop
good job keep up the videos, also another reason why the screen breaks when they open and close, they slam the lid open and close. but the most common is people opening and closing the lid by the corner, when you do that, the screen bends and cracks
Picking up the M2 Air today, my first MacBook ever, so thank you so much sharing this!
Absolutely the longest explanation for how someone should properly close their Mac.
Interesting video, not a subject Ive seen covered before :)
Quick question, what is the monitor you have on your desk? How does it cope with the 5k-4k scaling issue that Ive seen several videos on?
Cringe moment when he says he watches movies and plays on a laptop... 65" and surround is a minimum requirement for a movie and windows games must have a desktop + a proper gaming monitor.
Thank you for your video. Can you tell me which accessories you used for your mac? mouse, keyboard, etc.
If it's unplugged, by default macOS will not check for emails/iMessages etc in the background. That feature is called Power Nap and by default it's only turned on when Macs are plugged in (although you can make it do it on battery too in Settings).
Hi, thank you for this brilliant explanations, I only have a couple of doubts, when I put my Mac book Air M2 to sleep and I don't use it for a while, is it better if I keep the power cable connected or should I disconnect it? When I work on my Mac is it better to connect the power cable when the battery reaches a certain percent for example 30% or to keep it connected all the time?
Thank you so much in advance for your answer.
My MacBook Pro 13" Early 2013 still works great for everything and I have never shut it down but just closing the lid while it's charging too.
Recent MacBook owner here, just switched from windows. Thank you for this!
He bounces between saying some device is good and then in another video saying it's bad. Classic content for this channel! 😂
I have a 2017 MacBook Air, and literally this morning it wouldn't output to the same monitor I've been using at work for the last few months.
Not only did I have to restart the machine, I had to clear the NVRAM to get it working again.
Also, I always just close the lid, so it should have time to do the mentioned maintenance tasks.
I think it is also worth mentioning that writing and reading from the same "sleepfile" can potentially harm the SSD, since it is most likely reading/writing to and from the same physical space on the SSD, although I don't have proof.
When i was system admin, electronics device need a restart because of bad programming and Hard disk were HDD instead SDD, So the magetic things will have issues when you travel, and the packaging was not proper so the power might stop going and it may shut down immediate, to avoid these issues as a sys admin we request to keep the system in shutdown mode.
But past is past, may be we have a better programming to handle Block device(just technical) and SSD is cool nowadays. And as you suggest its not true every time it check for hard ware test. So it can be possbile to walk without shutdown.
For environment reason, please keep your device shut if not required, and not wasting Engery if not required. May be not a great way to save your pecks, but the mindset for evironment is true value.
Ya, and I noted that more constant running clutters up its efficiency - just restarting is a breath of fresh air for me AND the computer - which seems to run more smoothly with a restart.
I think it’s rather a question about power consumption. In Europe you always shut devices off when not used. I don’t know if this apply to most Americans but the friends I have leave their TV on even when they’re not watching and leave their computers on when not using them.
Europe sounds awful. You should have no reason to shut down a computer that requires less energy in sleep mode than a lightbulb.
@@ghost-user559 now multiply that by millions of users doing that daily and you got yourself quite a lot of wasted energy.
@@Nanomaroni Wow they really have brainwashed you guys. Like you literally just spew propaganda talking points?
It literally does not draw power when it’s in sleep? In true sleep mode called hibernation, an Apple computer can stay dormant for over 30 day’s on BATTERY.
You really do get off to this weird virtue signaling doom and gloom though don’t you. You understand that you’re parliamentary body uses more energy at a single party or conference flying their private jets and fawning on the red carpet than you would in your entire lifetime?
You ever seen what the g7 or g10 or the “Paris climate talks” actually looked like? Your “leaders” in massive private jets on long runways with flashing photographs, caviars and champagne.
You don’t think they turn off the lights in your WELL lit parliament buildings do they? Probably not EVER. And YOU foot the bill, AND are now mentally ill and OCD constantly dreaming about lightbulb power draws.
Your leadership is wasteful and arrogant and they have made you all into scared children.
You understand C E R N uses more power than any machine on the EARTH, and they don’t give af at ALL? You go ahead and walk around by candlelight. You help no one and nothing at all. And your leadership mocks you every time they meet.
@@Nanomaroni Look up what I said for yourself. If they can run C E R N with more power draw than entire whole continents and countries over and over for years and years, I think you can afford to sleep your MacBook on battery. Live a little. Seriously.
I don’t know what they did to all of you, but I am glad my ancestors saw it coming and got us out of Europe. You guys need propaganda rehabilitation.
Trust me, you can leave your laptop on 24/7 for the rest of your life and you will never adversely impact the earth anywhere near a SINGLE private flight to Da vos. You are fine.
@@Nanomaroni jfc u sound insufferable
What I’ve noticed I started to turn it off when I got my M2 15 inch MacBook Air 5 months and my battery capacity went from 100 or 98% when I would shut it down at night. Now I just leave it on and put it in sleep mode and ever since then my battery capacity hasn’t dropped and my battery recognizes now my battery optimization and holds the charge to 80 percent and charges it fully the next day on the certain time, so I’m never shutting down my MacBook Air again or resetting it unless I get an UPDATE
This is excellent and only regret not finding you in February when I got my first MacBook. Stopped using computers when I finished studying in 94. A friend laughed 20 years back when I went on a desktop for the first time in decades and asked him how I park the drive. Needed Apple as make music and art. Never owned a new computer so decided to treat myself. I'm more than happy with it and I'm gradually discovering all the Wonderfull features. As a 50 year old I was part of the first generation that had home computers as children and programmed basic. Well thats what we told out parents.
I keep my 2013 MacBook Pro connected to the charger and has never been turned off since I bought it in 2013. It has 89% battery health 9 years later.
You’ve got the same Twelve South Arc stand that I’ve been using for years with my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode
I restart my M1 Air each morning and always do any updates.
The T2 microphone hard close is a huge pain in the butt. I switched from iMac to MacBook Pro and instantly lost the ability to do voice controls, proper speech to text + I’d been a dragon dictate user for years so this was 50% of how I worked with my computer. I’ve not met anyone who thinks the T2 Mike-off is art all useful. Bah grr 😖 etc. Why the heck isn’t it a software option?
connect earpods
It's not a software option to prevent eavesdropping
my macbook pro microphone will not shut off ??
I always shut down my 2012 mac air after i use it and there is no problem or any issues until now
I just bought M3 Macbook pro & am pretty worried about the screen ,
that should I apply a screen guard or not !!
the 76 degrees thing is accurate. We don’t go crazy most of us do it by hand but new people use the measure app to get it to 76 lol.
Is it normal for the shift button need to press many times before it on/work? Because it have to press mine 2 times after sometime i hvnt use that button
Thanks for this video, I am going abroad for two months and leaving my MacBook Pro M1 at home. I was wondering how I should leave it. I presume in 2 months the sleep mode may deplete the battery down to 0%, or perhaps charge it to 100% then shut it down. I'm not sure what to do, please can you advise? Thanks.
Interessting Video! I das some issues with my 2019 macbook pro lately and the apple support online was really mad at me when I told them that I do not shut down my macbook at night and restart/shutdown it maybe once a week-month or so. The guy from the sipport told me that this would cause all my problems with the mac and that not shutting it down would harm my macbook. So why does apple support give this information?
I could be wrong but I had a powerbook.. I've been in the Mac laptop game for a minute.. I'm 97% sure when the laptop is plugged in it bypasses the battery completely if the battery is charged to 100% or as you said 95%. No cycles are counted while it's plugged in. It makes no sense for any laptop to run off battery powered while plugged in
hello bro should I install a screen protector and a keyboard cover on my Mac.
I used my MBA 2013 for 10 years with mixed occasions of closing without shutting down and closing after shutting down. I had done numerous times depending on my use. Nothing has happened to the screen and performance of MBA so far. I think it all depends on individual's use.
Closing the lid just initiates sleep mode, which is much better for a computer than being shut down all the time and allows it to do background works such as updates and d uploading files to the cloud.
If closing it were a problem it would warn us.
hi my friend, what microphone you are using for this video?
Hey, what is that keyboard? Does it have a touch bar?
I have an old Lenovo idea pad 320 that I use as a media pc, home server, iTunes music server and more and it’s on 24/7 since 2018 and it’s still up and running just like new
Actually, restarting like every day is sadly necessary for my M1 Mac Air because the mac for some reason does not show up after a couple of days.
Shutting down the MacBook may be inconvenient for an impatient person when restarting it but it definitely is not doing any harm to the machine.
use fan speed monitor on M1, it's okay to close the lid when the speed is 0rpm!
This video couldve been 5 minutes
where can i get this crispy af case? and can i get it for an m1 air?
I have my MacBook Air M1 in clamshell mode connected to an external display. Although I put the MacBook to sleep a few minutes or so later I find the display is on again as if the MacBook was active. I’m forced to unplug or power the display off. Any ideas why?
love your B-Roll when talking about when to shut down your macbook lol
OMG 😂. Bro - I write low level OS stuff. 90% of the stuff you say is just wrong. And sleep/hybernation mode has always chances of corrupting the state of the OS.
should I use screen protector for m2. I saw on internet that it's not safe to use screen protector.
I'm afraid of using my MBP in Clamshell mode because I'm always thinking the heat around the keyboard will damage the screen.
could use a laptop fan
I think the video is great. I just upgraded to a M2 air and I appreciate the time you took to do a thorough and researched video. Please ignore certain comments and continue to do videos in your own unique style. If viewers want to watch a shorter video… then they can find one and click on it or watch shorts. Thank you for your hard work 👍😉
Interestingly I had the thing with the lines, on my M1 iPad Pro 12.9.
What about the Mac mini? Should I put it to sleep or turn off?
Overly exaggerated. I’ve used my 2013 MBP for nine years with directly closing the lid everyday. It works perfectly fine and I can still sell it at a reasonable price this year.
Thank You! Very Helpful.
Also for my Intel based Macbook can't effect on never shut-down process? Only sleep ???
I have an 13" Macbook Pro with intel in it. The only time I restart it is when bluetooth does not let my connect my headphones, it is about 20-30 days.
Many users who didn’t shit down the mac over a year found numerous bugs/glitches such as sound didn’t work normally and they always fix this by restarting it again.
I think this quite explain all the questions about should we turn it off or not? Cuz normally even people have to take a rest. Why won’t a device should do that though?
Keep up the good work, Arthur!
One question: what if I am only using my laptop maybe once a week and traveling most of the week? Should I still keep it on standby instead of shutdown?
Standby mode
I got my M1 MacBook Air like four months before the M2 Air came out. I could have waited I guess but I liked the reviews and it couldn’t be beat for the money in December 2021.
I still use it daily for everything. It’s an amazing machine. Mine never moves, it sits on the same desk always plugged in with the original charger and cable it came with.
Thing does amazing. I quit using my iPad after getting it.. my iPhone works great for when the MacBook isn’t appropriate.
This actually makes me want to shut down my Mac even more. When I'm not using it I don't want it to do anything, not a thing. I really hate the idea of it doing something when I think its sleeping.
If the OS uses so much resources when I'm using it so that my UX is effected then it's a bad OS, using its resources way too inefficiently. The processor may be too slow or it needs more RAM.
Thank you Arthur, I'll be shutting down my Mac whenever I'm not using it from now on.
Actually, it's not a problem to turn off daily. First, there are no tests that damage components, and not really any tests are run on startup. Second, for most apps, macos saves the memory when you shutdown or even exit the app. Yes power draw is minimal, but it's not nothing. If you aren't using it for a while it's probably worth shutting down. Also background functions will also work when you aren't pushing device to the limit or completely idle. But if it requires it first, it will do it first. Either on startup, or while you are running faster tasks.
I put my laptop on a smart power bar so that when it goes to sleep, the "phantom power" turns off. Which also saves you energy since it's always drawing power if its plugged in. Cheers.
Is it a most you will click sleep mode before closing the screen???
I have always left my Macbooks/Powerbooks on and plugged in 24/7. I quit the apps, do Time Machine backups and then lower the screen brightness before I go to bed. The Macs do their maintenance tasks overnight. That works the same as putting it in sleep mode, doesn't it? I have never seen my routine offered as a suggestion. (I closed the lid once and when I opened it, things were amiss so I never did it again... That was years ago... I admit, that was only my experience... but like voodoo, I don't do it again...)
Shut down is useful but if I don’t use often then the computer will feel slow
Sorry but can you prove that rebooting your mac will cause the components to fail due to them being error checked on boot? Because I've worked in pc/mac repair for over 15 years and this sounds like complete bs. Like the idea that components that could be at full load while a machine is on could be damaged by getting fully discharged is nonsense. Also cache files on macs balloon when using productivity software and a reboot is often the only way to get back to full performance. Quite a Sophie choice to be able to use after effects at full speed or destroy your mac rebooting it frequently.
It is bs. literally everything else will fail before power on cycles will cause it to fail. Usually accidents drops/spills, then mechanical failures like hinge, then lol things like glue. absolute last is other electronic components like capacitors, etc.
Heat also kills things far more than power on cycles. Powering things off? more likely for it to cool off, and parts aren't dying of heat.
I know it's old but my Pro(2015) is closing hard and when it gets close to near closed (5% or so) there's a violent hinge snap and a growing small bump visible to the hinge black swivel area on left side. A small silver bump on the silver top (1/3 inch from black swivel left side near the mag. power insert area an inch from the top of the speaker holes.) I'm long out of warranty and might venture to open it up myself and lubricate - does anyone else have this problem? lemme know please how you're dealing.. thanks in advance.
11:00 in my 2016 MB with monterrey with two monitors clam shell doesn’t work with only Vga only with Hdmi but it can’t Vga and hdmi same time
99% of the time I let it sleep. The only times I shut it down are: before a time machine backup (this is due to a glitch where if I plug in the drive it doesn’t wanna backup for some reason, and restarting has been found to clear this issue by allowing spotlight to freely index on first boot with the drive attached [my educated guess]). The other time is when I travel. It’s easier to do that than keep wondering if I put it in airplane mode, especially since I don’t use it on the plane, as I’m too busy looking out the window. :)
Same here. My 2014 pro is still going strong
I have a 7-month-old M1 Macbook Pro mainly used in clamshell mode. Unfortunately, none of this intelligent" charging appears to be true. the battery health of my Mac has already been reduced to 96% after barely 7 months with 35 charge cycles. At this pace, I will need to replace the battery quite soon.
My Macbook Pro, an Intel i7 2019 recently killed it's display due to clamshell mode. Apple should stop encouraging clamshell mode, and should alert their customers about this serious flaw. My MBP display now is dead with just a few days of clamshell mode, now I use it as a headless Macbook with external display.
You know that when it sleeps, the whole RAM is dumped into the SSD, don't you? I don't think that making it sleep rather than shutting it down imposes less strain to it, rather the opposite.
Hi heavy Macuser here since 2015 when i switched from windows. Since then I had four different mac models personal and provided by my workplaces. I almost never shut down my Macs except for upgrades and password reset issues or say if i plan to not use them for weeks or for a long time. I can say on the most extreme scenario am still going strong with one of my backups a Macbook 12 from 2015, which had a keyboard replacement in 2019 (done free by Apple since this was a known issue on these Macs) and a blackout screen in 2021 (replaced by Apple) but the screen was never cracked it just worn off showing the typical blank screen. I have never replaced any batteries or logic components this Mac still works swiftly and plan to keep it until 2025 completing a full 10 yr cycle as it was bought maxed out in RAM and storage which is still superior from basic config Apple is selling in their new models at their stores in 2023. For my other Macs inefficiencies or cracked screens were never there I replaced batteries in two of them when approaching 900 - 1,000 cycles while still bearing some minimal charge but that is all, so I guess in statistical metrics anything can always happen but cracked screens or other non-typical problems should not be a real concern if you do not turn off your Mac regularly. Hope this helps.
My MacBook which I still use had a period of time(4years) where I didn’t turn it off I only closed it and I’ve never had a problem as for the camera I covered it in water soluble arcrylic paint so I can just wipe it away when I need to use it.
I usually restar my macbook once every 3 weeks because it does significantly lag and sometimes even crash if I use iy for longer than that
My new m3 macbook pro when the display shuts off my external ones turn off too which is great. The issue I have though is that my external monitors turn back on for a few seconds and then go back off. Then after a few minutes it repeats this processes. I tried to google this issue and seems like no one has a fix for it yet. My older macbook pro that's an intel model works perfectly fine. I'm curious if it's because I'm signed in on icloud on my m3 where I'm not on my intel one since it's my work computer. I do have the option set where when it's in sleep that my internet connection stays off. It wouldn't bother me so much but my monitors make loud beeps every time it turns on. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
I have a lot of EXTERNAL hard drives on my macbook, should I shutdown or keep it sleeping? Can I remove hard drives during sleep (even if projects e.g. PREMIERE PRO is opened?) I know it is a dumb question lol, I am a new macbook user by the way, from a 12- year windows user.
I use my MacBook air m2 only for 15 minutes at 7pm and use it again next day at the same time. I shut it down after the use am I doing wrong?
Thank you!! I wondered if its better to turn off every once in awhile, so I found this helpful to know🙏