Insomnia and Sandy Bridge - Solution Found Yet?

[Relznuk]

I remember reading early reports that programs such as InsomniaX and Caffeine did not work on the new 2011 MBP's - does anyone know if a workaround had been found or if someone has figured out a way to prevent these machines from sleeping? I hate leaving my MacBook open, but I use Plex to watch all my Mac's videos from the iPad, so I can't really close it down at night without it sleeping and killing Plex.

 

[emiljan]

Another way to do this is to go into system preferences, then go into "Energy Saver" and set the "computer sleep" and "display sleep" sliders to never.

 

[NZed]

I remember reading early reports that programs such as InsomniaX and Caffeine did not work on the new 2011 MBP's - does anyone know if a workaround had been found or if someone has figured out a way to prevent these machines from sleeping? I hate leaving my MacBook open, but I use Plex to watch all my Mac's videos from the iPad, so I can't really close it down at night without it sleeping and killing Plex.

Caffeine doesnt work with the new MBP 2011? Its in the Mac App Store!

 

[scrapple]

caffiene works, but doesnt have a feature where if you close the lid, the mbp doesnt sleep.

this works though

http://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/downloads/detail?name=NoSleep-1.2.0.dmg

 

[Cantisama]

InsomniaT works:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12150590/

 

[Relznuk]

Thank you all for your help.

 

[NZed]

insomniat works:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12150590/

+1

 

[tekjunke]

I'm using InsomniaT but I really miss InsomniaX

 

[gorskiegangsta]

I remember reading early reports that programs such as InsomniaX and Caffeine did not work on the new 2011 MBP's - does anyone know if a workaround had been found or if someone has figured out a way to prevent these machines from sleeping? I hate leaving my MacBook open, but I use Plex to watch all my Mac's videos from the iPad, so I can't really close it down at night without it sleeping and killing Plex.

FYI, Caffeine only prevents the screen from going off, it doesn't prevent MBPs from going to sleep; for what it does, it works just fine. InsomniaT should work for you. Also, you may wanna check out this thread.