Given you're a vendor you should know that this is not an Apple owned forum. So your diatribe may be better suited by a complaint direct to them.
Hmm. I had no idea I was a "Vendor". Simply because I was asked for a "Business name" when registering here, I put in the name of my audio restoration (i.e. non-Apple-related) business. Now I'm an Apple vendor? Woo hoo! I thought it was much harder to break into that market?
My "diatribe", as you so quaintly hiss it, is the opinion of someone with a severe physical disability, that results in my relying on some basic, elementary, logic on the part of people and companies who design and build computers - that is, computers for use by someone other than themselves.
This is not evident in my Macbook Pro - which, by the way, I wouldn't give up for all the coffee in Samsung's boardroom right now. - This computer, quite bizarrely (for a modern computing device), instantly shuts down all communications when the lid is closed, with no notification that this would happen, as there are no manuals that come with said laptop that explain what all the buttons and hidden magnets are "for". Nor does it have a delete key. WTF? But that's another "diatribe".
I really enjoy the technology that I have sitting on my lower stomach and leaning back against my legs right now. I enjoy the engineering skills that have gone into the hardware, I enjoy the fact that I can now dip into the underlying OS with a few key presses and do stuff I haven't done for over 20 years with UNIX, and I enjoy the incredible level of support I get from Apple.
What I dislike are things like the lack of manuals for new users, especially new Windows users who are trying to figure all the buttons out (they aren't documented on the shipped computer, you have to google them!!!), the fact that I need to make a support call to figure out what the little power button does (since it's not documented anywhere I could find it in the first 4 months I owned it), and I really dislike the fact that this computer, unlike 99% of the laptops on the market today, doesn't allow a new user to configure what happens when he closes the lid. Nor, by the way, is that little factoid mentioned anywhere online, in any reviews, or in any documentation, which of course, doesn't actually exist.
There are many things I enjoy about the computer, the support people, and the community. There are some things I don't. When I mention the things I don't enjoy, that is not a "diatribe". That is an opinion. I could do a diatribe, but the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the cat's asleep on the wicker chair, and I have to keep learning how to make NS disable the lid button.
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Holly crap mate. Surely there is something more "elegant?"
I kind of agree and disagree...
I agree that there should be a Preferences item for the lid closing behaviour. That's both elegant
and expected!
I disagree, because all the software alternatives break down each time Apple pushes out an upgrade to the OS. So I upgrade, forget that it's likely to break at least one thing that I've come to rely on, continue my work, then -poof- I close the lid, expecting not to lose my connections.
So for me, as an ex-hardware guru, the, er, "least inelegant" solution was to pop the connector. Problem "solved". Specially since I've never used the battery lights in my whole ownership of the most lovely laptop in the world.
I wonder if Apple will name a device after me?
When you hear "yecannahandamanagranderspanner", think of me. Inelegant, and proud!
Cheers mate!
-Pete in Melbourne
