MacBook Close and shut down

Hi,
When I Shut down my macbook and then close it immediately, it doesnt shut down. After I opend it in this procedure, I have to "force shut down" it by pushing long the powerbutton.
I bought my macbook in october. A friend has a macbook, too, which he bought in december. His Macbook does shutdown after he closed it.
According to the apple updater, i have the latest firmware installed.
I hope someone can help me (:
Chris

It may well be behaving properly.
All operating systems that I know of, Windows, Linux, OS X shut down in a similar fashion: The OS notifies each running program that a shutdown is about to occur. Each program is given a certain amount of time to "clean-up" and terminate itself. After waiting, the OS forcibly terminates any process still running.
If you look at the performance monitor you will see that even a brand new Apple computer is running several dozen programs in the background. Once you have added all your applications, particularly all those widget type things you may well double that number. IN many cases, they don't have much to do at shutdown time, and many just exit once given the notification. Others however have files that are open and much be closed, memory7 that needs to be freed, etc. These activities almost all involved calls back to the operating system of course, and so suddenly the OS has dozens of file /I/O and memory requests to deal with all at once.
So, shutdown, even more that startup, may well be the busiest your computer ever gets from the OS point of view. It takes time. The alternative, which would be for the OS to just stop dead when you press the on/off button, would result in many problems, greatest of which is corrupted files the next time you start up.
My advice: If you are really in a hurry, just close the thing and let it go into sleep mode. This involves some bookkeeping too, but at least you don't have to wait for it.
It's quite possible that your friend who's machine shuts down quickly isn't running as many things in the background as you are, or, there is one other possibility, which is that a single application, by not responding to the shutdown signal properly is holding the whole thing up. Try disabling some or all of those widgets and other background applications and you can probably figure out which one is the hold-up.
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