Apple Macintosh 'Sleep' Keyboard Shortcut - Two Seconds to Sleep
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I'm not usually one for keyboard shortcuts, apart from the basic ones, like Undo, Select All, Copy / Paste etc. I subscribe to Apple's 'Hot Tip' feed which explains how to send your Mac to sleep in just two seconds.
"Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, sleepy-bear hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that."
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visitor
8 July 2006 - 9:54am
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Geraldine
Jonathan
12 July 2006 - 1:04pm
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Jonathan
visitor
18 April 2007 - 1:27am
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Brett
so i tried the sleep shortcut and my comp went to sleep and then not even 5 seconds later, it woke back up.
do you know whats going on with it?
visitor
6 May 2007 - 3:46am
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razany
Maybe some program you have on woke it up..
visitor
3 December 2007 - 3:16pm
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Matt P
It works for me if I press and hold Command and Option and then just give the Eject key a quick tap. Pressing and holding Eject causes the Mac to sleep and then wake right back up again.
Matt
visitor
2 April 2010 - 7:50pm
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patandt@comcast.net
works great for me. thanks
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