On a Mac laptop (MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air)Īpple refers to using your laptop with the lid closed as “clamshell mode” (no, I don’t understand, either, but this is also the company that refers to routers as “airports” so I suppose they could call it anything they like). If you open the lid of your laptop again, it automatically re-assigns the external monitor as an “extended desktop”. If you had previously been using your external monitor to “extend your desktop” then Windows is clever enough to adjust itself so that it now uses your external monitor as the main screen (and not as an extended screen). It might be a good idea to leave the option on “sleep” under the “On battery” column as you could otherwise put the laptop in your bag for carrying around and have it dangerously overheat (before draining the battery completely).
Underneath the “Plugged In” column, against the “When I close the lid” row, select “Do nothing”.Click on “Choosing what closing the lid does” (at the left hand side of the screen).Click on “Additonal Power Settings” (at the right hand side of the screen).Click on “Power and Sleep Settings” when this is offered in the Start menu.Click on the “Start” button and type the word “power” (without the quotes).So, how do you set up your laptop to work with the lid closed when there is an external monitor attached? Change the “Plugged In” setting to “Do Nothing” but leave the “On Battery” setting to “Sleep” It’s even quite OK to have an external wireless keyboard and mouse permanently connected, sitting on your desk ready for action (as long as you’ve got USB ports available on your laptop to be able to keep the USB receivers connected all the time, of course). This does, of course, only make sense if you also use an external keyboard and mouse.
#Macbook no sleep on lid close Pc#
Well, this is possible for both Mac and Windows PC laptop users, and it isn’t difficult to achieve. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could hook up your external monitor and have your laptop closed (but switched on)? That way, you wouldn’t need to have it on your desk to make sure it’s safe while the lid is open.
Of course, you can connect an external monitor to a laptop, but it often just isn’t convenient to have an open laptop on your desk as well as the external monitor. However, there is one respect in which laptops are not as convenient, and that is that the screen is quite a bit smaller than you would typically use with a desktop computer. Laptops have obvious advantages over desktop computers, to such an extent that most people now prefer them if they only have one “proper” computer. Want to use an external monitor on your laptop with the lid closed?
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