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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 28, 2012 22:08 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: "Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." by wahern
Parent article: Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around

> Apple is a one-stop-shop for best available features.

This would only be true if everyone could agree on what "best features" are. For instance, I would not trade my ThinkPad keyboard for my daughter's MacBook Pro keyboard. Ever. I would also not trade my matte screen for her glossy one. Sure, her machine has a feature she likes a lot - it looks great - something I do not give a toss about. Etc.


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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 29, 2012 15:57 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I recently got a used one from a coworker to test OS X compatibility. It seems as though there is NO way to get a macbook pro to not be suspended when the lid is closed if you don't have power (understandable), keyboard, mouse, *and* monitor plugged in. As if computers are useless without a display or input (an ethernet cable can satisfy all of those requirements). It's been sitting off to the side because I just don't have the desk space for it to be open all the time because of that. The plan is now to hoist it in a cradle under the desk and plug the peripherals in and just SSH into it.

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 29, 2012 17:27 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Sure there is. You can either do it manually using pmset utility or install a nice GUI app like http://code.google.com/p/macosx-nosleep-extension/

(yeah, I've just switched to Mac OS X and that was one of the things I've installed first)

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 29, 2012 17:35 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Heh, leave it to the Linux community to give better answers than the Mac community about stuff like this.

All Apple has is: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3131]
My question to the community: https://discussions.apple.com/message/19273346

Thanks!

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 29, 2012 20:10 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

There is a nicely packaged free program called caffeine that does that job, too, IIRC. http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

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