If you don’t have a MacBook or MacBook Pro, then you can’t put your Mac to sleep as easy as closing a lid. You’ll have to go to the menu and click the Apple and then click “Sleep…” and then acknowledge the dialog box that yes you really are sane and understand your actions. Some know the trick of holding the option key while selecting Sleep will remove the three trailing periods to cancel the dialog box (works on the shut down and restart option, too) but you still have to go through the menu. Well now you don’t.

The good folks at Lifehacker found a sweet keyboard shortcut that lets you put your Mac into nighty-night mode in just two seconds! Simply hold down your Command key, Option key, and Eject key all at the same time and within two seconds, your white LED will be glowing indicating that the instant Sominex has taken effect! Sweet dreams.

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