My Mac is really annoying me.

[mashinhead]

I get your frustration..

I use this tool to clean my keyboard, works like a charm!

‎Fuzzy

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Thank you!

 

[circatee]

...and here I am wishing my windows laptops would turn on when I opened the lid (without pressing the power button).
Alas, here we are.

 

[RSB96]

It's something that annoys me a lot too.

Apple should at least leave the option to remove it.

 

[BellSystem]

I love how you keep going back to the well of "it's me doing it wrong" rather than the reality of, it's deliberately and poorly designed to work this way. To keep you on a computer all the time.

Apple can do no wrong. They are perfect in all ways. You are the problem.
-MacRumors Members

 

[Mr_Ed]

Seems to me there a plenty of reasons to have the laptop open and not powered on. Cleaning (as the OP wants), setting up/positioning in workspace, plugging in/moving peripherals, all in preparation for work at a later time.

It’s true that you can do such things while powered on (if forced to), but for a company so publicly concerned with impact on the environment, having the option to use 0 energy while doing such tasks by providing a traditional “powered off means OFF” state seems like an easy thing to do. Kind of stupid not to, really.

 

[HowEver]

It'd be easier/quicker to just lock the screen (from the Apple menu), as other people have already pointed out.

Sure, but then, I guess separately, it's a great idea to have to require a password on wake from sleep and screensaver.

 

[zevrix]

In what situation would you open the lid and not power on the device?

to clean the keyboard?

 

[Mr_Ed]

In what situation would you open the lid and not power on the device? Lid opening to turn on makes a lot of sense to me. I can understand people disliking key presses to turn the computer on, I respect that.

Aside from cleaning, as the OP and others point out, I often handled the laptop with open lid.

When I came home from work and planned to work from home the next day, I would position the laptop on my desk and hook up local monitors (1 or 2) and other peripherals. Monitors are on adjustable VESA arms because I share them with 2 desktops, so I needed to reposition them around the laptop screen (the reason lid was open). Since I would not be using it until the next day, I had no reason to have it powered on.

This whole thing is silly to me. What is gained by taking away the option to permanently power down? Why have a power button at all if anything but leaving the lid closed powers on the computer?
(On second thought, don’t give Apple any ideas about the power button 😅)

 

[turbineseaplane]

This whole thing is silly to me. What is gained by taking away the option to permanently power down?

I can't think of one single benefit -- it's very strange

 

[ignatius345]

I was wondering about that. Personally, I use isopropyl alcohol.

I assumed the idea was that it evaporates faster.

 

[dougmon]

One more thing on the auto-boot: why does Apple think it's ok to take the decision on when the machine is on away from the user? Why can't we decide this?

 

[impulse462]

I can't think of one single benefit -- it's very strange

One more thing on the auto-boot: why does Apple think it's ok to take the decision on when the machine is on away from the user? Why can't we decide this?

For always-on features to spy on their users.

Someone mentioned it earlier in the thread that apples own “guide” to cleaning the computer states that it should be turned off but clearly they don’t want you to do that.

I’m surprised as the people asking why this is a problem? When I clean my electronics they are always turned off. Now I can’t even turn my computer off to clean it just so “regular” people don’t need to look for a power button because that’s a power user feature now apparently. This is really more of the same from apple over the past decade or so so not really surprising honestly.