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How do I restart my Macbook Pro when the screen is black?
Press and hold the power button for about 10 seconds. Press and release the power button, then immediately press and hold Command (⌘)-R until you see an Apple logo or other image. If you still see a blank screen after about 20 seconds, contact Apple Support.
To put your Mac to sleep manually, choose one of the following two actions: Choose the Apple key→Sleep. (The Apple menu appears in the upper-left corner of the screen.) Press the Control+Eject (or press the power button) and, when a dialog box appears, click the Sleep button.
What happens when I put my MacBook Air to sleep?
When you’re not using your Mac, you can save energy by putting it to sleep. When your Mac is in sleep, it’s turned on but consumes much less power. It takes your Mac less time to wake from sleep than it does to start up after being turned off. To put your Mac to sleep, do any of the following:
How do you wake a Mac from sleep?
Wake your Mac from sleep To wake your Mac, do any of the following: Press a key on the keyboard, or click the mouse or trackpad. On a Mac notebook, open the display.
On my Macbook Pro, whenever you press the power button it goes into sleep mode. How do I change this to do nothing? You can control whether pressing the power button should put your mac to sleep or present a dialog with options (sleep/restart/shut-down) using the pmset command. The following:
Is there a way to put the power button to sleep?
You can control whether pressing the power button should put your mac to sleep or present a dialog with options (sleep/restart/shut-down) using the pmset command. The following: will put it to sleep right away (presumably your current setting) and changing 1 to 0 will present you with the dialog.