Reply to: Macs "just work" - yeah right. Power/sleep issues.

[BlasterBates]

I sit opposite the office IT support guy and there is a constant stream of disgruntled users because of problems with their Macs.

He himself is hanging on to his Windows desktop as long as company policy allows.

No doubt the Mac is cool though !

[cojak]

This was the article I remember reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...s_high_sierra/

That was September 17.

I was very pleased when I upgraded to HS a couple of weeks ago, and I still am.

I was hoping that it might fix the sleep problem, but it hasn’t completely.

[d000hg]

This was the article I remember reading: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0...s_high_sierra/

[woohoo]

No dis Dear, twas simply a resigned acceptance.

No dis taken

[cojak]

Fair enough, most of the reviews are fine for this company but I completely understand what you mean.

No dis Dear, twas simply a resigned acceptance.

[woohoo]

My MBP is my main laptop, I guess I will have to get a new one this year. I’ll take a look at FAQqer’s recommendations.

Fair enough, most of the reviews are fine for this company but I completely understand what you mean.

[WTFH]

The only issue Ive had with HS is that the Canon printer drivers no longer work.
Apart from that the mac mini and mbp have been running fine on it

Officially my Canon printer drivers don't work either - Pixma iP4500.
Thankfully no one told the printer, so when I got the iMac, I just installed the most recent driver for the printer I could find. It works.

[cojak]

Sorry, didnt see this question.

I bought it from Amazon, these are the people, not sure if it was this exact battery. My MBP is not my main laptop, so these are the guys and the laptop still works and is not on fire, so that's the extent of my recommendation

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FLOUREON%C2...aujahr+Version

My MBP is my main laptop, I guess I will have to get a new one this year. I’ll take a look at FAQqer’s recommendations.

[woohoo]

Ah, that’s interesting woohoo - could tell us where you bought? (There are so many dodgy electrical sellers out there I’d rather have a recommendation.)

Sorry, didnt see this question.

I bought it from Amazon, these are the people, not sure if it was this exact battery. My MBP is not my main laptop, so these are the guys and the laptop still works and is not on fire, so that's the extent of my recommendation

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FLOUREON%C2...aujahr+Version

[FiveTimes]

I held off upgrading for a while on my old MBP, but had no problems when I did. I put it onto the iMac and it's been fine. I know there were reviews back in September/October that said don't update yet but I haven't seen any recently, and if your processor is at risk from Meltdown/Spectre, then you really should upgrade.

The only issue Ive had with HS is that the Canon printer drivers no longer work.
Apart from that the mac mini and mbp have been running fine on it

[stek]

Try 'caffeine'....

Or

pmset -a sleep 0

pmset -a disksleep 0

and

pmset -a displaysleep 0

if you want display on perm.

[cojak]

HS considerably improved the performance of my MBP.

I was very happy with the upgrade.

[WTFH]

@WTFH I'm on Sierra as the review I read of HS was "don't update yet" due to major changes under the hood.

I held off upgrading for a while on my old MBP, but had no problems when I did. I put it onto the iMac and it's been fine. I know there were reviews back in September/October that said don't update yet but I haven't seen any recently, and if your processor is at risk from Meltdown/Spectre, then you really should upgrade.

[d000hg]

Oh, OK so Safe Sleep is just Hibernate in Windows terminology... saves the state to HDD and powers off. Though OSX does already have nice features to let you turn the machine off and keep apps open, which is a big plus.

[d000hg]

No, I’m thinking that it’s quite possible that an ‘upgrade’ update did something to destabilise older Macs of all persuasions.

Woohoo is suggesting an alternative fix (for me), so I’ll give that a try.

It has done it for me since at least Yosemite which came out I think during the sale period of this iteration.

turn sleep off

You're welcome.

Not really a solution but well done for trying.

@DaveB WTF are they playing at! Many thanks I shall investigate.

@WTFH I'm on Sierra as the review I read of HS was "don't update yet" due to major changes under the hood. I had wondered about apps keeping it alive but all I tend to run is Chrome, Parallels, OneNote and Skype. I do have Dropbox in the background. Activity Monitor shows nothing untoward but nearly every app pings the web for cloud sync now