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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[ruchitnannavare]

Says “I don’t wanna beat around the bush”, continues to beat around the bush

[gregsmith]

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.

[johnroedbacting]

Just enjoy your macbook guys hehe Don't stress out :) because at the end of the day it will still age.

[eclecticaro]

I've been turning on and off my Macbook Pro everyday since 2012 and never had any detrimental issues with it.

[hiropro]

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

[davadh]

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

[sgoldkuh]

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.

[jammin]

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.

[PeuSHINIGA]

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.

[fizzybubbily]

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.

[andycraddock]

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.

[dindu]

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.

[mayorplayz]

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

[gaiustacitus]

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.

[PeterAKnipp]

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

[idontknowwhattoputhere.]

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

[substance]

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.

[dawnd]

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.

[ritafernandes]

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 …

[MediSpring]

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.