Shuts Down When Lid Closed

Just got the macbook air today .... something annoying is happening.... whenever i close the lid and it goes to sleep - i cannot get it to wake up
so i hold the power button down and force a restart - sometimes it seems like the computer already shut down and i am just restarting it - annoying.... any one got any ideas?

Hiya,
Try just hitting any key to wake up the MBA and see if that'll do the job. I know this was one thing that irked me about the MBA at first--the computer wouldn't wake itself up when I opened the lid, in comparison to the "desktop replacement" HP laptop I have at home. But I've found that hitting any key (I personally prefer to hit the space bar :P) will wake it up instead.

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