Discovering why a Mac wakes up when it should be asleep, and quietly flattens its battery overnight, has been almost impossible, until now.
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Odd things can lead to some Macs starting up or waking up spontaneously. Here’s one solution to those mysteries.
On Intel Macs, resetting the SMC was a universal panacea until the T2 came along. What can we do instead with an M1 Mac?
CTS scheduling and dispatch of background tasks has no user interface, and no controls. How can you tell that there’s a problem, and what to do about it?
If you power your Mac from a UPS with a USB connection, sleep may not be all it’s supposed to be.
When you wake your laptop up in the morning, it’s clear it has been awake half the night. How to ensure it gets a proper night’s sleep.
Apple has just released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, which it says addresses problems in some Macs when […]
From hardware diagnostics to pmset and resetting the SMC, all you need to know about diagnosing wake and sleep problems.
Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.
Sleep interrupts the scheduling and dispatch of background tasks. Here’s how it looks in the dispatching systems.
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