Only ever had a Thinkpad lid close sensor fail once. Found my T60 heating up my backpack. Other than that, never been a problem.

I've never once had a Dell/HP/Acer/Asus with a reliable lid close sensor. You can't trust those things.

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trenchpilgrim 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you're talking about laptops waking up inside backpacks- that's due to the terrible implementation of "Windows Modern Standby" that has ruined every laptop except Macbooks and Framework. (Framework still implements legacy S3 standby to improve compatibility with Linux.)

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craftkiller 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Framework still implements legacy S3 standby to improve compatibility with Linux.

Just want to warn other readers: Not all framework models have S3 sleep. I've got the 7040 AMD framework laptop and it only does s2idle.

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3eb7988a1663 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has been an issue for so long - who is at fault? Is it hardware vendors or software? The spec itself is so bad that all implementations will disagree?

Halting power until an external physical event seems like a simple enough idea. I have never wanted to close my laptop and let it keep number crunching.

	▲	numpad0 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft. There's ~nothing to be gained by checking in with the Internet while laptop is closed, they implemented it anyway.

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cubefox 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> If you're talking about laptops waking up inside backups

Presumably he meant the laptop didn't go into standby when closed or woke up from standby while still closed.

	▲	zargon 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s what Modern Standby does.

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geoffeg 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've also found my work MacBook Pro heating up my backpack sleeve a number of times because it didn't properly go to sleep. Likely culprit is some "security" spyware the company installs.

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justin66 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not generally the lid sensor that causes a Windows laptop to fail to go to sleep, is it?