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Hello everyone and thanks if you by any chance know the answer to this question!!!
So... turns out I had the late 2008 MacBook Aluminum. This was a WEIRD version, Running snow leopard it had a removable battery, 2.4Ghz processor 4 GB RAM and 256 GB hard drive (almost specs like a MBP). Got discontinued pretty quickly but it lasted a good 9 years for me.
Long story short. Some ##@(*!! broke into my house and stole my MacBook with other electronics such as my playstation, my brothers computer blah blah and it was a tragedy. SO HERE'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS:
I had disabled my password when the computer came back from sleep mode, this because at my last work I closed and opened it often and it was a hassle to type the password EVERYTIME, so password was limited ONLY when the computer was shut down and turned on back again. I noticed that when it ran out of power and I hooked it up again even like a day or two after, the computer would restart and then show a grey screen with a little loading bar and then popped back to where I left it, without requiring a password.
All of this is because I had very sensitive information in that computer BUT this I will tell you is a game changer:
- The computer was nearly dead in performance (9 year computer)
- My wifi hardware completely died on February of the year in course
- I changed the battery 5 years ago with a used battery that was at 80% health, nowadays it said REPLACE NOW, and if unplugged it would last about 45-50 minutes before it died.
- BEFORE THEY STOLE IT THE COMPUTER HAD BEED COMPLETELY UNPLUGGED AND UNUSED FOR ABOUT ALMOST 4 MONTHS JUST SITTING IN A DESK. (last time I used it I didn't TURN IT OFF I just let it die)
So heres the question: If they plug my computer, will the battery be completely drained out flat and it would kind of "reboot" as if it was turned off and on so it would require the password screen? OR will it come back directly to the grey screen and load and grant access to these people to my unlocked computer as if it was just coming back from sleep mode like it had happened after I left it a couple of days in sleep?
Your answer will make me sleep at night again. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
So... turns out I had the late 2008 MacBook Aluminum. This was a WEIRD version, Running snow leopard it had a removable battery, 2.4Ghz processor 4 GB RAM and 256 GB hard drive (almost specs like a MBP). Got discontinued pretty quickly but it lasted a good 9 years for me.
Long story short. Some ##@(*!! broke into my house and stole my MacBook with other electronics such as my playstation, my brothers computer blah blah and it was a tragedy. SO HERE'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS:
I had disabled my password when the computer came back from sleep mode, this because at my last work I closed and opened it often and it was a hassle to type the password EVERYTIME, so password was limited ONLY when the computer was shut down and turned on back again. I noticed that when it ran out of power and I hooked it up again even like a day or two after, the computer would restart and then show a grey screen with a little loading bar and then popped back to where I left it, without requiring a password.
All of this is because I had very sensitive information in that computer BUT this I will tell you is a game changer:
- The computer was nearly dead in performance (9 year computer)
- My wifi hardware completely died on February of the year in course
- I changed the battery 5 years ago with a used battery that was at 80% health, nowadays it said REPLACE NOW, and if unplugged it would last about 45-50 minutes before it died.
- BEFORE THEY STOLE IT THE COMPUTER HAD BEED COMPLETELY UNPLUGGED AND UNUSED FOR ABOUT ALMOST 4 MONTHS JUST SITTING IN A DESK. (last time I used it I didn't TURN IT OFF I just let it die)
So heres the question: If they plug my computer, will the battery be completely drained out flat and it would kind of "reboot" as if it was turned off and on so it would require the password screen? OR will it come back directly to the grey screen and load and grant access to these people to my unlocked computer as if it was just coming back from sleep mode like it had happened after I left it a couple of days in sleep?
Your answer will make me sleep at night again. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!