{"id":82,"date":"2008-06-11T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-06-11T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T05:11:20","slug":"use-macbook-pro-lid-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/06\/11\/use-macbook-pro-lid-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Use MacBook Pro Lid Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagecows.com\/uploads\/5a5c-design_topcenter20061024.jpg\" alt=\"MacBook Pro One Inch Tall\" width=\"400\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MacBook Pro&#8217;s are able to run with their lid closed (clamshell mode) when connected to an external display as long as you&#8217;ve connected a usb keyboard and mouse (likely either\/or) to the laptop <em>before<\/em> closing the lid.<\/p>\n<p>Closing the lid after connecting the external keyboard\/mouse, will put the MacBook Pro to sleep, but clicking\/moving the mouse or pressing keys on the keyboard will wake your Mac from sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you&#8217;ve connected the external monitor before closing the lid, else the MacBook won&#8217;t display the desktop in clamshell mode.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full original instructions from Apple on <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=86286\">how to use MacBook Pro \/ PowerBook G4&#8217;s with lid closed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Pro&#8217;s are able to run with their lid closed (clamshell mode) when connected to an external display as long as you&#8217;ve connected a usb keyboard and mouse (likely either\/or) to the laptop before closing the lid. Closing the lid after connecting the external keyboard\/mouse, will put the MacBook Pro to sleep, but clicking\/moving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}