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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by coldtea on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:44PM (#17411177)
If you want some program to finish processing something (e.g. video render), there are programs on both Mac and Windows to keep the laptop from sleeping on demand.

The normal situation, 99% of times, when one closes the lid on a laptop is to not use it, and to not want to have any programs run in the background. You close the lid to put the laptop in your back, take it to the office, etc.

Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop...

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Re:The Surface Book 2 is everything the MacBook Pro should be by the_af on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:38PM (#17411643)
> Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop...

This is exactly how I use all of my laptops, both personal and at work, about 90% of the time. I consider them "portable desktops" ;)

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