Is it normal to have problems waking macbook pro?

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mackeral

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I was just wondering if it is normal that the only way to wake my macbook pro from sleeping is it click and hold the power button, sometimes more than once. Upon waking the hard drive makes a big sound and the computer comes to life.

I have a macbook pro 2.53GHZ unibody 300GB HD 4GB ram bought last January and it has always woken up in this way.
 
Is that 'big sound' the same as your boot chime (the sound the system makes within a couple of seconds after you first turn it on) If that's the case, then your system is not sleeping but is completely OFF. Waking from Sleep only takes about 5 seconds at that most, and you don't hear the boot chime. If your system is OFF, then you will normally hear the boot chime. I think your MacBookPro is OFF.
How are you putting it to sleep?
 
Nope, its not the start up, it comes from the hard drive. It sounds like bzzz bzzz, as though the harddrive is starting up again. Sometimes it makes this sound but doesnt wake up. So I have to press and hold the button again until it happens again and the screen turns on. The screen is how I left it before it went to sleep, only whiter and there are 4 squares at the bottom that fill in before it wakes up.
 
By your description something is not right. If the sound is not the startup then something hardware is going on. So take it to your nearest Apple store genius ASAP, don't wait.
 
The very light screen, with progress indicators at the bottom - indicate the normal process when your system is recovering from "safe sleep" mode - when your MacBook Pro has lost power and your battery has gone dead.
When that happens next - press the battery test button on the left edge of your Macbook Pro. Do any of those test lights come on then?
Don't misunderstand - Safe sleep is not a bad thing, and can be useful in certain situations, but it's not normal, and is NOT considered sleeping. I would call it hibernation, instead of sleep. It's usually a result of either a bad battery, or a setting in the system that you have changed.
If you are not aware of any change that you have made, which would result in the normal use of 'safe sleep', then you should take your MacBook Pro in for service.
 
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