How to troubleshoot the MacBook Pro Retina that takes time to wake up from sleep mode

How to troubleshoot the MacBook Pro Retina that takes time to wake up from sleep mode

MacBooks with a Retina display were undoubtedly a real breakthrough for apple in 2012. They are very slim, perform well, and have a great screen. But sometimes you may notice that it takes a little while from when you open the lid of the laptop until the computer starts up.

This is especially noticeable when the is activated: the dialog box for entering a appears on the screen long before the opportunity to enter it.

It is that apple has added a new energy saving function to the MacBook Pro with Retina display and the new MacBook Air models that allows the computer to remain in sleep mode for a long time, according to the USB devices/Bluetooth, SD cards or external displays.

You may notice that if you close the lid of your laptop for, say, 30 minutes, opening it will instantly bring it out of sleep mode.

To correct the problem of long stops Retina MacBook Pro From hibernate mode, you can change the time interval after which the computer will go into power-saving sleep mode by copying the following command to the terminal:

sudo pmset -a standbydelay 86400

The number at the end is seconds, so in the previous command we set the sleep mode to turn on after 24 hours, but you can also replace it with a time interval that is convenient for you. To know the current time interval use the following command:

pmset -g

Increasing this time interval probably won't have much of an effect on your MacBook's battery life, but it will greatly improve the laptop experience.