Laptop cases

I'm sure this is a dumb questions, but I will ask anyway. If I place my Macbook Pro in a case when I am at work or not home to keep the dust off of it, does it have to be shut down since it will not likely get any air? I usually have it in sleep mode, since I am used to my windows laptop taking forever to start up fully. I wouldn't be zipping the case up, just slipping the laptop inside.
Thanks!
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Hi Jeff,
If the machine stays in sleep, no problem. The only issue would be if it woke up with some sort of malfunction, then being in the bag could definitely cause heat buildup. Even then, though, there is forced thermal shutdown around 100C to protect the Mac. I wouldn't want my machine to ever get that hot, but it should bounce back from such a shutdown (which shouldn't happen in properly functioning sleep anyway).
FWIW, over the last 20 years or so, I've left plenty of sleeping Macs in plenty of cases and never once had a problem.
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