iPad and Clamshell MacBook Pro

[FA22raptero]

Hello guys,

So you know that day when you get to work/school and you go, crap, I forgot to e-mail that super important word document that I left on my computer to that super important person and i'm going to get fired/fail if I don't get it in to them... Good thing I have my iPad and mocha VNC right?! Not...my laptop is closed.

So I have mocha VNC, an iPad 2, a MacBook pro and an app called "Wake". I have hooked up my iPad to my computer Via bluetooth and removed all the restrictions, allowed remote users etc. I then connected the VNC, testing 123 it all worked marvelously. My question is this, do you guys know of a way to get a closed laptop to function from a wireless device like an iPad? I can wirelessly wake my computer using "Wake" if it is open, but if it's closed i'm out of luck...

I'm hoping to be able to wake it so I can use VNC.

I checked some other threads, but I couldn't find anything else quite like this...

Thanks!

 

[Ashwood11]

The laptops have a light sensor that puts the system to sleep when the lid is closed. I believe that if you were able to wake your laptop remotely it would simply put itself back to sleep.

 

[FA22raptero]

But the thing is that if you connect and external display or if you are using and external display and a bluetooth mouse/keyboard, you can use it in clamshell mode, so it's not a light sensor that does it.

 

[Mac.World]

As I recall, as long as your laptop is "plugged in" and you have it connected to a TV/monitor, you can wake it from sleep mode while the lid is closed, no problem.

 

[Spankey]

So when you are in school by the fall you can have everything saved to the cloud and pushed to your ipad. Hopefully.

 

[FA22raptero]

As I recall, as long as your laptop is "plugged in" and you have it connected to a TV/monitor, you can wake it from sleep mode while the lid is closed, no problem.

Yeah but then what happens is you have to buy a monitor. I just mean as if I had just left it on my desk charging, closed and in sleep mode. It just seems a little redundant to not let access to it in sleep mode from another device, but if it's plugged in to something it's no problem. Thanks for your help!

 

[Surely]

Why don't you just leave your MBP open on your desk while it's charging? You can still put it to sleep that way.....

 

[FA22raptero]

Why don't you just leave your MBP open on your desk while it's charging? You can still put it to sleep that way.....

Yeah thats true, its just a lot more convenient and natural to close your laptop. Either way, I was just wondering, it would have been handy.