Parallels, Sleeping and Crying myself a River (almost)
Friday, November 03, 2006
OK dear fellow Mac owners,A quick warning. I have Parallels Workstation running on my Mac so that I can run some Windows prog
rams (like SPSS for example). Anyways I was working on SPSS through Parallels and I was rushing off from work so I just closed the lid on my Mac. Thinking that it went to sleep, I proceeded to stuff it into my black foam sleeve I use to keep my Mac. While walking to the car, I hear a distinctive Windows' c dialog box chyme. I thought, hmm ok, my other work PC laptop is fully shut down, must be coming from my Mac. So I opened it up and lo and behold, the freaking Mac DID NOT sleep because I left Parallels running on the Full Mode and when I closed it, it was running Windows XP. My MacBook Pro was probably almost hot enough to cook some nice scrambled eggs by then and probably would've overheated and gone kaput, retire to Mac Heaven if I hadn't discovered this!!! So a learning point here, my Mac owning friends: If you run Parallels on FullScreen Mode and you shut the lid while it's on Windows, it WON'T sleep. So shut down Windows, exits Parallels, THEN put your Mac on Sleep Mode! Don't say I didn't warn you! Otherwise you'll have this for a Mac:
.... if this had happened, I would have
FREAKING cried me a Bruneian River....!
rams (like SPSS for example). Anyways I was working on SPSS through Parallels and I was rushing off from work so I just closed the lid on my Mac. Thinking that it went to sleep, I proceeded to stuff it into my black foam sleeve I use to keep my Mac. While walking to the car, I hear a distinctive Windows' c dialog box chyme. I thought, hmm ok, my other work PC laptop is fully shut down, must be coming from my Mac. So I opened it up and lo and behold, the freaking Mac DID NOT sleep because I left Parallels running on the Full Mode and when I closed it, it was running Windows XP. My MacBook Pro was probably almost hot enough to cook some nice scrambled eggs by then and probably would've overheated and gone kaput, retire to Mac Heaven if I hadn't discovered this!!! So a learning point here, my Mac owning friends: If you run Parallels on FullScreen Mode and you shut the lid while it's on Windows, it WON'T sleep. So shut down Windows, exits Parallels, THEN put your Mac on Sleep Mode! Don't say I didn't warn you! Otherwise you'll have this for a Mac:
.... if this had happened, I would haveFREAKING cried me a Bruneian River....!
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