<story><title>Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag</title><url>https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7514448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davrosthedalek</author><text>Be careful. My Macbook Pro cooked it&amp;#x27;s display twice. Some program made it not go to sleep when I closed the lid, I put it in my backpack, and it overheated the display so much that I had yellow-brownish spots (which followed gravity over time). 
No way to check if it&amp;#x27;s sleeping when the lid is closed, because reasons...</text></item><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>This is the literal reason I switched to OSX. I dislike the impractical design of Macbooks - horrible connectivity and no way to swap batteries.&lt;p&gt;However the combination of 15 hrs battery life + closing the lid and it not melting a hole in my bag trumps any negatives.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>I stopped using my Microsoft Surface Pro because it had the same issues. It&amp;#x27;s a clusterfuck of bad design decisions at Microsoft, the most offensive one being that they prioritize the execution of their scheduled spyware upload (telemetry) over honoring the agreement with the user that a sleeping PC will remain asleep unless the user takes action. It&amp;#x27;ll even install updates at night and then make reboot sounds to wake you up. And the next day, your unsaved open documents are all gone. Plus as described here, many Windows 10 laptops will either burn themselves, or the battery will be empty whenever you need em.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dubya</author><text>I really miss the &amp;quot;snoring&amp;quot; light that Macbooks used to have, though more to tell if the computer is actually waking up.</text></comment>
<story><title>Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when placed in a bag</title><url>https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/FAQ-Modern-Standby/td-p/7514448</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>davrosthedalek</author><text>Be careful. My Macbook Pro cooked it&amp;#x27;s display twice. Some program made it not go to sleep when I closed the lid, I put it in my backpack, and it overheated the display so much that I had yellow-brownish spots (which followed gravity over time). 
No way to check if it&amp;#x27;s sleeping when the lid is closed, because reasons...</text></item><item><author>radicalbyte</author><text>This is the literal reason I switched to OSX. I dislike the impractical design of Macbooks - horrible connectivity and no way to swap batteries.&lt;p&gt;However the combination of 15 hrs battery life + closing the lid and it not melting a hole in my bag trumps any negatives.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>I stopped using my Microsoft Surface Pro because it had the same issues. It&amp;#x27;s a clusterfuck of bad design decisions at Microsoft, the most offensive one being that they prioritize the execution of their scheduled spyware upload (telemetry) over honoring the agreement with the user that a sleeping PC will remain asleep unless the user takes action. It&amp;#x27;ll even install updates at night and then make reboot sounds to wake you up. And the next day, your unsaved open documents are all gone. Plus as described here, many Windows 10 laptops will either burn themselves, or the battery will be empty whenever you need em.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmarcher</author><text>I always assumed those were the result of my cycling backpack putting too much pressure on the screen. It&amp;#x27;s basically bow-like structure to keep the bag off my back.&lt;p&gt;I do have my MacBooks cooking themselves in my backpack every so often too.&lt;p&gt;Basically, every MacBook&amp;#x27;s I had in the past &amp;gt; 10 years ended with that issue.&lt;p&gt;Mystery solved!</text></comment>