My MacBook Pro takes an awful long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. Considering that I generally want to close the lid and then carry it somewhere, I want it to be fully asleep so I don't have any hard drive issues. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?
MacOS – Why does the MacBook Pro take so long to go to sleep
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Best Answer
I recommend a nifty little utility called SmartSleep that allows you to control when the saving of your RAM contents to disk for the Safe Sleep / Hibernate feature Mac OS X has.
Alternatively you can disable Safe Sleep altogether by running:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
. To change it back to the defaults, change the value to 3.