It absolutely isn't. If a laptop lid is closed, it needs to be sleeping, period. No random updates, no search indexing. I've also had this happen after explicitly putting laptops into sleep AND closing the lid. No idea how Apple is the only company able to do this consistently.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

no search indexing

hear me out. how about ... there doesn't need to be a background process that runs constantly and consumes 30% of your processing power and makes the fan spin all the time because it generates so much heat.

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

I am stuck using an otherwise old but theoretically bearable PC at work running Windows 11 from a spinning HDD. But I'll tell you, when I dug through the registry to turn off all the background indexing nonsense, it became damn near usable.

[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This absolutely can and does happen on Apple hardware

[–] baropithecus@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't used a mac for over a decade, but for the decade or so before that it never happened to me once, either on an iBook or MBP. Perhaps something changed in the meantime.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Apple laptops are typically extremely good when it comes to sleep and suspend.

A major advantage of having a very small range of hardware you have to support is that it's pretty easy to test all possible combinations and make sure they work well together. As far as I'm concerned, Apple has been, and probably always will be the undisputed champion of doing this right.

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social -5 points 16 hours ago

Never happened to me lmao. Apple is for tech illiterates anyways so it's inconsequential.