Modify Your MacBook’s Sleep Behavior

I’ve yet to experience any sleep problems (the thing your MacBook does when you close the lid) on my MacBook Pro, nevertheless, this article points to a freeware resource (SmartSleep) that allows you to select the sleep behavior for your Mac laptop without having to dish out commands in Terminal.

According to the Readme.rtf document, the SmartSleep preference pane needs to be installed for all users.

I’ve decided to go with the smart sleep setting with the default value of 20 seconds, which means that if the remaining battery level is 20 minutes or more, the system will just go to sleep immediately without writing the contents of the RAM to the hard disk.

If the battery level is at 20 minutes or less, it will automatically switch to the sleep and hibernate setting, which means that the contents of the RAM will be written to the hard disk during the start of the sleep process.