Disable closing lid sleep

Is there a way of disabling sleeping on close lid? I am using my macbook primarily as a workstation with external display keyboard and mouse. So its a bit anoying that it sleeps when i close the lid ...
Further more if i want to play itunes with it and have it my backpack i have to have the screen open or else itunes stops playing (ofcorse because its going to sleep.

Is there a way of disabling sleeping on close lid? I
am using my macbook primarily as a workstation with
external display keyboard and mouse. So its a bit
anoying that it sleeps when i close the lid ...
The computer draws air in through the keyboard for cooling. Leaving the lid open a bit will produce more efficient cooling.
Further more if i want to play itunes with it and
have it my backpack i have to have the screen open or
else itunes stops playing (ofcorse because its going
to sleep.
Oh Dude, you don't want to do that! You may overheat the unit. Get a cheap iPod instead. I recently bought a Shuffle for $40.00 and it plays as good, if not better, than my 60G Photo iPod.
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I worked on behalf of HP.

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