MacBook Pro Sleep Seems to Have Issues
I decided to run my battery down to do the calibration as suggested in the MBP manual. I got one warning about imminent sleep, and dismissed it. As I was copying a folder, the Mac went into forced sleep right in the middle of playing the “copy complete” sound. It repeated this sound a half-dozen times before the system finally went to sleep.
It darkened the screen, the little white LED came up dully (as it does when the screen’s asleep), and then eventually it went into full sleep mode.
I tapped the shift key, to make sure it was really asleep. On my PowerPC AlPB, this is ignored. On this machine, it woke right up. I used it for a few more minutes, and then it completely shut down losing anything I had not yet saved. This was pretty bad.
I’ve now launched XBattery and plugged it in. Let’s see if it gives us any more juice. Currently: 5419 mAh capacity, 3 cycles.
Been looking for what the mAh capacity is on another MacBook Pro. Mine’s gone from 5349 to 5513 (5462 currently) since I bought the beast. I was hoping I just got a bunk battery as it won’t even last through a 2.25hr movie off the hd without going to sleep.. which is worse than my aging TiBook.
I haven’t had this problem with deep sleep but I have had it be stubborn on waking from sleep. Have to close and open the lid a few times when I let it sleep for a while.
Overall not too happy with it.. I’d trade down to a MacBook but I don’t want the white plastic!