Air doesn't charge while sleeping

i find that with my macbook air, if i leave it plugged in but sleeping (closed) it does not charge as other macs do. does anyone know anything about this? thanks.

As far as I know, it should charge even when on sleep - over even when shut down, in fact.
I would take it back to the store to have it looked at and possibly get it replaced.

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A question that's puzzling me:
For most of the time that I've had my iPod touch and current iMac, I've left the iPod in the dock overnight, connected to the iMac which I put into sleep mode overnight.
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However, the iPod touch has been charging successfully during sleep
Then the computer was not really asleep.
The drive may have spun down and the display has gone to sleep but if the processor is asleep, the USB is NOT powered (per the USB standard). If you are using a powered USB adapter, that will continue to charge but 5VDC from the iMac USB bus will not be available while the CPU is in sleep mode.
FireWire is powered while the computer is asleep.
A bit of info -> <a href='http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1384">Charging your iPod battery</a>
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I also have a mid '11 Macbook Air and this exact same thing is happening to me with the charger. Tonight scared me because it would not start charging for a long time. Fortunately I still had battery power left.
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The mac doesn't charge because it doesn't recognise the charger or the other way around..
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